women more choosy with partners
Women pay more attention to men’s negative qualities when looking for a romantic relationship than men do when looking for a partner, finds a new study. The study said even if a man has many positive qualities, one or two negative qualities are sufficient for a woman to avoid a romantic relationship with him. The study, published in the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, examined the effect of deal breakers on the formation of romantic or sexual relationships in comparison to deal makers. Using information from six independent studies, the researchers determined the top deal breakers for people nattractiveness, unhealthy lifestyle, undesirable personality traits, differing religious beliefs, limited social status, differing mating strategies, differing relationship goals. “We have a general tendency to attend more closely to negative information than we do to positive information,” said Gregory Webster from the University of Florida in the US.
low-fat food cuts risk of breast cancer
Women who stay on a low-fat diet for approximately eight years may reduce their risk of death from invasive breast cancers and improve their survival rates when compared with women who have not followed the dietary regimen, a new study has found. In order to determine the effects of a low-fat dietary pattern on breast cancer, researchers from the los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute (US) conducted additional analyses of a randomised clinical trial that had followed 48,835 postmenopausal women.
The women were aged 50-79, had no prior breast cancer, had normal mammograms and normal dietary fat intake.
teen obesity can kill you midlife
In light of the worldwide increase in childhood obesity, researchers set out to determine the association between BMI in late adolescence and death from cardiovascular causes in adulthood. Their study was based on a national database of 2.3 million Israeli 17-year-olds in whom height and weight were measured between 1967 and 2010. The researchers assessed the association between BMI in late adolescence and death from coronary heart disease, stroke, and sudden death in adulthood by mid-2011. The results showed an increase in the risk of cardiovascular death in the group that was considered within the accepted normal range of BMI, in the 50th to 74th percentiles, and of death from coronary heart disease at BMI values above 20. Even BMI considered normal during adolescence was associated with graded increase in cardiovascular and all-cause mortality during 40 years of follow-up.
