This new study, however, offers a positive outcome from the treatment, reports Science Daily. Doctor Lars Larsson, from Uppsala University Hospital in Sweden, who led the study, said: ‘We found that even though individual muscle fibre did not change in size, the muscles of HRT users showed greater strength by generating a higher maximum force compared to non-HRT users.’

‘It is thought that using HRT, at least in part, reduces modifications of muscle contractile proteins that are linked to ageing,’ said Larsson.

Source: IANS

Exercise

You will have to perform exercises that focus well to tone your shoulder, back, bosom, waist, buttocks and thighs. Remember to warm up before beginning with your exercise routine and cool down your body after work out. Do consult a proper instructor before starting these exercises.

To get sculpted arms and shoulders
You must first begin with military press to increase muscular endurance.

• Shoulder: Front dumbbell raises, lateral dumbbell raises, and reverse dumbbell fly
• Upper Arm: Bicep curls, chair dip, triceps push up, and overhead extension.
• Forearm: Wrist curl, wrist extensions and forearm twists. 

For shapely legs and thighs
Apart from leg extensions and leg lifts you should do squats and lunges. The latter will indirectly also take care of your gluts muscles (buttocks). At first you will quite struggle to do these, but with practice you can increase the repetitions. Target your glutes by doing hip thrusts.

For a well-defined waist
Besides the regular crunches and reverse crunches you should look at working on your oblique muscles i.e. ones along the side of your abdomen. You can do so with the help of dumbbells if you want to give these muscles a little more stretch. You may also go for Pilates that will take care of your core.

For a well-toned back
You can do shrugs using dumbbells (works on trapezius), cable row (works on posterior deltoid), chin-ups and pull-ups and dead lifts, which will effectively take care of your lower back.

For perfect bosom
Do chest press dumbbells, push-ups, and dumbbell fly, bench press and cable fly.

Watch your plate

Exercising is not sufficient to chisel your body. Dedicate some time into working out a proper diet to complement your workout routine. You can sit with your nutritionist and dietician to do so. Largely, you will be told the following, with variations depending upon your body type and metabolism rate.

• You should balance your protein, fat and carbs. Eat protein-dense foods, such as – lean meat and eggs (without yolk), include whole grains, fruits and vegetables and low-fat dairy products in your diet.
• Keep away from saturated fat, deep-fried foods, and excessive sugar, sodas, and artificial sweeteners.
• Snub your junk food cravings because they have zero nutritive value and work their way by adding bulk of fat on your body.
• Drink a lot of water because with a strenuous exercise session you don’t want to dehydrate yourself.
• Eat 6 small meals a day, large breakfast, moderate lunch and light dinner with healthy snacks interspersed in between the three meals.
• Have a handful of nuts daily for a dose of fibre.
• If at any point you throw up or can’t keep up with the diet plan, you should talk to your dietician to make required modifications.

Wear the right kind of clothes

You must have often bumped into women who are not appropriately dressed, especially according to their body type. So, if you are heavy on the top, waist or thigh don’t wear clothes that will further draw attention to your problem areas. To downplay the troubled zones, you can wear shape-wears. Don’t forget to wear the right bra.

Be the person you are

Even if you don’t attain this perfect hourglass figure, be thankful that you are paying attention to your body. Pamper it while you can and work your way towards getting fit. It is your responsibility to understand your body type and not make it suffer by doing things that it can’t take (starving or over-eating). Love the person you are because there is no other ‘You’. And, keep away from knife tucks, your body is yours to keep!

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The survey that was performed in 25,000 men, found that while women usually took a few months to commit to a relationship, men are ready even after two dates.

When asked about how long it takes to become a committed couple, 42.5% men said that a ‘couple of good dates’ was all they needed.

But when it came to exchanging keys, 64.5% men and 68% women said that there was no real time frame they could mention. It was also found that more women than men appeared to ‘need their space’ and say that the time would ‘never’ be right to settle down. When pushed further to reveal a more solid time frame, 34.6% women said that they needed at least a few months to commit.

Men also showed that they were quicker to introduce their new love interest to friends, 56.4% said that they would introduce their love interest to friends after 5 dates as compared to 39.7% women.

‘We are aware of the number of productive hours wasted the world over due to women wasting their time over make-up. Our product is created for the woman who wants it all.’ Dr Peechnup told us in an exclusive interview with health.india.com.

The basic 2-min Masko comes in a package consisting of 3 masks – for the sleek office look, for the Indian marriages and other such occasions and the third for an evening out. The pack also contains natural glue obtained from keepwood trees in the Amazonian forests. They peel off easily without any residue and do not cause any allergies. And all you girls with the green in you, it has not been tested on innocent animals.

For the Indian skin, the mask is available in three skin tones – dark, fair and how-is-she-so-fair. The mask can be worn for up to 12 hours at a stretch and can be reused up to 10 times. Once it loses its elasticity, it has to be discarded.

Indian cosmetic companies are losing sleep over this product. Himamico has plans to launch an advertising campaign are positioning their products with the tag line ‘For the woman who has the time for herself’. Meanwhile, the 2-min Masko, while currently being manufactured in the US, has plans to set up shop in Didi’s own state. But this has the natives up in arms saying that they like their lives as they are and will protest against anything that wants to change their lovely pace.

Currently available in only 3 variants, the company plans to include new additions depending on the demands of their clients. Seeing the positive response from the customers, the company has decided to ship the mask worldwide through their website in order to attract overseas customers as well. The pricing starts from Rs 1999 onwards.

Statutory Warning: Before you order the ‘2-min masko’, read the following. While we would love for this idea to come to life, unfortunately it is a bluff played on you from the health.india.com team. Congratulations as you have fallen for our April Fool’s Day gag. Hope you enjoyed reading this post. 

 The researchers, led by Rhodes, reviewed 35 studies that included data about the territorial ranges and spatial abilities of 11 species of animals, including cuttlefish, deer mice, horses, humans, lab mice, meadow voles, pine voles, prairie voles, rats, rhesus macaques and talastuco-tucos (a type of burrowing rodent). Rhodes and colleagues found that in eight out of the 11 species, males demonstrated moderately superior spatial skills to their female counterparts, regardless of the size of their territories or the extent to which males ranged farther than females of the same species, according to an Illinois statement.

 The findings lend support to an often-overlooked hypothesis, Rhodes said. The average superiority of males over females in spatial navigation may just be a ‘side effect’ of testosterone, he said.Researchers tend to overlook the fact that many physical and behavioural traits arise as a consequence of random events, or are simply side-effects of other changes that offer real evolutionary advantages, he said.

Source: IANS

Researchers also did tests on baby rats where the sex difference in Foxp2 levels is reversed, with young male rates normally having more. Separated from their mothers the males made more noise and were retrieved first.

When the team reversed the protein levels, raising it in the females, the mother reversed her behaviour. The study then found that girls had more of the Foxp2 protein in the cortex than boys the same age. Cheryl Sisk of Michigan State University, said: “At first glance, one might conclude that the findings in rats don’t generalise to humans, but the higher levels of Foxp2 expression are found in the more communicative sex in each species.”

The study is published in The Journal of Neuroscience.

‘The study is novel because for the first time we are showing that increase in Body Mass Index (BMI) is not happening equally across the board,’ S. V. Subramanian, professor of Population Health and Geography at the Harvard School of Public Health, told IANS.  ‘Obese and overweight people are gaining weight rapidly in low-and middle-income countries, including India, while those who are severely undernourished are not experiencing similar weight gains,’ said Subramanian, the senior author of the study.

‘Increases in average BMI are largely driven by populations that are already overweight or obese, with little to no change among underweight individuals,’ he said. The study shows a persistent problem of underweight in India, with about 25 percent of the population being underweight in 2005, and at the same time the percentage of women who are obese has doubled.

‘To put this in perspective, the number of underweight women exceeds the number of overweight and obese combined in India. This pattern of persisting problems of under-nutrition along with a simultaneous rise in obesity is being seen in most of the low income countries studied,’ Fahad Razak, the study’s lead author and a fellow at Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital, told IANS.
Razak says underweight people die at much higher rates, perhaps because of diseases related to being malnourished, while overweight and obese people also have higher rates of death and disease, mostly from causes such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer. ‘We believe that as India increases its focus on the health needs of overweight and obese people it must continue to address the needs of the large number of severely undernourished people in society,’ says Razak.

The study used information collected in Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) of Indian women with a sample size of 72,469 in 1998 and 91,243 in 2005. ‘One might think that as a country grows economically, the majority of the underweight population would move into the average BMI range, but our study shows the opposite and the people of average weight are disappearing in India,’ says Razak.

‘This growing trend of body weight extremes is going to pose a major challenge for health care and policy leaders,’ says Razak. ‘They will need to balance their priorities between addressing health issues afflicting the underweight who happen to be poor, and health issues afflicting the obese and overweight – the upper middle-class and rich.’

BMI is an indicator of body fat calculated by dividing a person’s weight in kilograms by their height in metres squared. Obesity is defined as having a BMI of more than 30.0 kg/m. Compared to people with a healthy weight (a BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 kg/m2), obese individuals and overweight individuals (who have a BMI between 25.0 and 29.9 kg/m2) have an increased risk of diabetes, heart disease and stroke, and tend to die younger. At the same time, people who are underweight (BMI less than 18.5) also have an increased risk of death, perhaps from complications related to being malnourished.

Source: IANS

And the Daily Mail says that it’s the women who are getting weaker. London-based physiotherapist Sammy Margo says he sees a massive epidemic of weak women who have no muscle strength There are skinny women who have no muscles supporting their spine, and overweight ladies who don’t have any muscles under the fat, he noted

This is because the majority of young females want to look thin and not strong, says Ken Fox, professor of exercise and health sciences at the University of Bristol. They don’t eat much, they don’t exercise much, and because of that they have weak musculatures — it’s really not a healthy way to be, he said. Sedentary lifestyle and lack of protein intake among women are also blame for weakening muscles.

Another reason is increased instances of smoking and drinking – two habits that are horrible for cardiovascular health. Other factors like increased use of oral contraceptives, irregular meal-times, tendency to eat junk food and lack of exercise are all taking a toll as well. All these lifestyle modifications make women more susceptible to heart disease.

Signs and symptoms of a heart attack in women

Women don’t experience the ‘classic’ symptoms of a heart attack. Some common symptoms in women are: 

• Uncomfortable pressure, squeezing, fullness or pain in the centre of your chest. These pains are infrequent and come and go.
• Pain or discomfort in one or both arms, the back, neck, jaw or stomach.
• Shortness of breath with or without chest discomfort.
• Other signs such as breaking out in a cold sweat, nausea or light-headedness.
• As with men, women’s most common heart attack symptom is chest pain or discomfort. But women are somewhat more likely than men to experience some of the other common symptoms, particularly shortness of breath, nausea/vomiting and back or jaw pain.

It seems that there’s a link between a woman’s fertility levels and sense of competition.

• Women more competitive with attractive counterparts when at the peak of their fertility
• Those in the fertile stage made 25 per cent less pay offers to attractive women

According to the new study, women become far more competitive with attractive counterparts when at the peak of their fertility. Attractive women approaching female bosses for a pay rise should be extremely careful. They could be offered up to 25 per cent less pay by their female bosses during this time.

During the study, carried out by psychologists at Wellesley College in the U.S., women completed a test with an on-screen virtual partner. They had to make a certain salary offer to their partner and keep the rest for themselves. They had to rate the partner’s attractiveness on a 10-point scale at the end of the test.

On average women in the fertile stage of the month made 25 per cent less offers to attractive women, the results of the study. Women at the low-fertility stage offered 20 per cent more to the prettiest women than they did to the least good looking, suggesting that low-fertility women are less competitive with attractive female co-workers.

‘What we found supports the idea that, among women, competitiveness during periods of high fertility is linked to the withholding of resources from potential rivals,’ Dr Margery Lucas  told the Independent,  reminding of the hunter-gatherer days when a woman had to look after herself and deny as much as possible to rival women competing to attract men.

‘Resource competition is important because women need to acquire products – clothing, makeup, accessories, and so on – to enhance their attractiveness. By offering less to attractive women and keeping more for themselves, fertile women can help to enhance their own appearance and weaken a competitor’s ability to do the same. Women today should be aware that in, for example, salary negotiations, menstrual cycle phase, along with the attractiveness and sex of the negotiation partner, could interact in complex and potentially costly ways,” she said.