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Mid-life strokes

differenceblog Jun 21, 2007 08:18

Miranda Hitti's (2007) article on WebMD discusses recent research that suggests that women 45-54 are more than twice as likely to have a stroke as men of similar age. UCLA researcher Amytis Towfighi's results in Neurology's June 20th edition (Towfighi et al, 2007) assessed stroke risk in over 17,000 Americans, using data from the National Health ( Read more... )

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The problem of fairness in sport

differenceblog Feb 16, 2007 08:38

In a position paper released in December (and no longer available on the website), the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Committee on Women's Athletics (CWA) calling for a ban on the use of male practice players in women's sports (ESPN, 12/12/06). ESPN quotes the committee: "The message to female student-athletes seems to be 'you ( Read more... )

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Body deception

differenceblog Jan 25, 2007 08:30

Many studies rely on self-reporting for their data, but this can be a serious weakness. Even for such measurable items as height and weight, self-report can differ significantly from reality. Brener et al (2003) compared the self-reported height and weight of over 2000 high school students to their measured height and weight, and found that on ( Read more... )

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What women want

differenceblog Dec 20, 2006 08:54

Frederick et al (2005) found that images of men in men's magazines are more musclular than images of men in women's magazines. Frederick et al suggest that this is related to men overestimating the level of muscularity desired by women, parallel to the idea that women overestimate the level of thinness desired by men ( Read more... )

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Smoking and weight

differenceblog Oct 24, 2006 08:43

Continuing the subject from yesterday's post, a McGill University study suggests that smoking for weight control is ineffective for women. An article in the Vancouver Sun (10/23/2006) quotes researcher Louise Pilote: "girls do say that they smoke to keep weight off or lose it, but the science doesn't prove that, since smoking had no effect on ( Read more... )

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The five second rule

differenceblog Aug 23, 2006 09:12

An Ohio University poll (2006) examined behavioral differences between 1,010 men and women. One reported difference: "60 percent of male respondents said they would eat food that had fallen on the floor while less than half the women surveyed said they would do so."

While the actual meaning of the results is a matter of debate, it does call into ( Read more... )

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