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Hypothesis: it's socially more acceptable for men to not care for their body as much as women do, eat worse, drink more soda and beer, etc. leading overall to m

by jakubp 10y ago

Hypothesis: it's socially more acceptable for men to not care for their body as much as women do, eat worse, drink more soda and beer, etc. leading overall to more sugar(y) foods and more inflammation?

stagbeetle 10y ago
Social conditioning and less general sensitivity, more like.
- jakubp 10y ago
  Social conditioning ~= socially more acceptable, would you agree?
Godel_unicode 10y ago
Social anecdotal evidence from the United States: according to TV commercials the most pressing female health problem is breast cancer, while the most pressing male health problem is Erectile dysfunction.
tathougies 10y ago
Also, men don't get multiple periods in their lives when they are checked out for every condition under the sun. My wife's health was given a thorough run down when she was pregnant and a bunch of things caught and fixed -- like her hypothyroidism. I go regularly to my physicals and had never been checked out so much. I ended up demanding that I too get tested for some of these things, and the doctors caught that I also had an asymptomstic but more serious autoimmune thyroid disease. Had I been a woman, I would have caught this during pregnancy check ups, and been treated. Instead I had to demand it. Now of course I think it's fine for pregnant women to be given priority but we need to realize that men don't get the equivalent treatment and thus encourage programs to get men in to the doctors, thoroughly tested, and treated. Make it part of a pre-birth check up for fathers. After all, once the baby is born, it would be nice if they had a father.
belorn 10y ago
I think its more that society impose pressure on women to care how they look and being healthy, while imposing similar requirement on men to care about their ability to raise money. Dating site statistics shows a very strong correlation for successful profiles that follows those gender roles, where a man who focus more on about taking care of their body than their carer has a negative correlation, and women who focus more on their carer than taking care of their body has a negative correlation. Genetic differences between males and females may account for some of the imbalance in how often people get sick, but incentives may also account for some. The article don't really explore that.

by jakubp 10y ago

stagbeetle 10y ago

Social conditioning and less general sensitivity, more like.

jakubp 10y ago
Social conditioning ~= socially more acceptable, would you agree?

Godel_unicode 10y ago

Social anecdotal evidence from the United States: according to TV commercials the most pressing female health problem is breast cancer, while the most pressing male health problem is Erectile dysfunction.

tathougies 10y ago

Also, men don't get multiple periods in their lives when they are checked out for every condition under the sun. My wife's health was given a thorough run down when she was pregnant and a bunch of things caught and fixed -- like her hypothyroidism. I go regularly to my physicals and had never been checked out so much. I ended up demanding that I too get tested for some of these things, and the doctors caught that I also had an asymptomstic but more serious autoimmune thyroid disease. Had I been a woman, I would have caught this during pregnancy check ups, and been treated. Instead I had to demand it. Now of course I think it's fine for pregnant women to be given priority but we need to realize that men don't get the equivalent treatment and thus encourage programs to get men in to the doctors, thoroughly tested, and treated. Make it part of a pre-birth check up for fathers. After all, once the baby is born, it would be nice if they had a father.

belorn 10y ago

I think its more that society impose pressure on women to care how they look and being healthy, while imposing similar requirement on men to care about their ability to raise money. Dating site statistics shows a very strong correlation for successful profiles that follows those gender roles, where a man who focus more on about taking care of their body than their carer has a negative correlation, and women who focus more on their carer than taking care of their body has a negative correlation. Genetic differences between males and females may account for some of the imbalance in how often people get sick, but incentives may also account for some. The article don't really explore that.