Monthly Archives: March 2013

Boys Overestimate Their School Skills, Girls Underestimate Theirs

Thursday, March 14, 2013
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Boys Overestimate Their School Skills, Girls Underestimate Theirs

Boys tend to overestimate their school performance compared to how their teachers rate them, but girls tend to underestimate their own performance, new research shows. The gap emerges around fourth grade…

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Study Finds: Office Stress, Large Family Responsibilities Put Women at Risk

Wednesday, March 13, 2013
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Study Finds: Office Stress, Large Family Responsibilities Put Women at Risk

  The combination of high job stress and large family responsibilities spells significant and persistent increases in blood pressure for white-collar women who hold a university degree, a Canadian study shows.…

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Women’s Social Support Worth More Than Men’s

Monday, March 11, 2013
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Women’s Social Support Worth More Than Men’s

Social support from women appears to be more effective than support from men in reducing both men’s and women’s blood pressure under stress. But, scientists who ran the laboratory experiments that…

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Doing Housework: The “Ideal” Fair Share

Friday, March 8, 2013
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Doing Housework: The “Ideal” Fair Share

Researchers calculated that employed husbands and wives should each do less than half of the household chores (45.8 percent each to be precise) if they want to keep their personal distress…

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Eight “Betcha’ Didn’t Know” Facts About Nutrition

Thursday, March 7, 2013
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Eight  “Betcha’ Didn’t Know” Facts About Nutrition

Amidst the recent flurry of health, nutrition and fitness advice, a Gallup survey shows that consumers are more aware of some basic nutrition principles but still a bit uncertain about how…

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After Breast Cancer Surgery, Women Most Fear Death, Pain, and Bills

Wednesday, March 6, 2013
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The concerns that loom largest in the minds of breast cancer patients during the first year after surgery are not loss of attractiveness or sexuality, as is often thought. Instead, it’s…

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PMS Symptoms Emerge When Women Discover the Syndrome

Tuesday, March 5, 2013
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PMS Symptoms Emerge When Women Discover the Syndrome

The amount of physical and emotional suffering connected with premenstrual stress syndrome (PMS) may depend on what women think they should experience, a team of Mexican scientists says. Dr. Maria Luisa…

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Can Primary Care Physicians Treat Depression?

Monday, March 4, 2013
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Can Primary Care Physicians Treat Depression?

Many primary care physicians are confident in their ability to diagnose depression and endorse this important role as part of their clinical responsibilities, according to a national survey of family physicians,…

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Lose Weight and Keep it Off Through Fitness

Friday, March 1, 2013
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Lose Weight and Keep it Off Through Fitness

The typical American diet has introduced high amounts of fat, oils, sugar and processed foods that have led to a weight problem that affects most countries.  Fitness weight loss is an…

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