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Coffee Time, Ladies

By Dr. Nick Campos On March 11, 2011 · Add Comment · In Body

Women, women…is coffee good or bad for you? I going to tell you something that just might perk you up: A cup of coffee a day may keep stroke away. Perky? Good. Check it:

A recent Swedish study found that women who drank at least one cup of coffee per day had a 22-25% lower risk of stroke than women that drank less or no coffee at all. Researchers followed 34,670 Swedish women, ages 49 to 83, for about 10 years. They logged the womens’ coffee consumption habits and then checked hospital records to see how many had a stroke after ten years. Other risk factors like smoking, weight, high blood pressure and diabetes were adjusted for, coffee drinkers still came out ahead. Now how’s that for a little boost?

Some doctors warn, however, that this study only proves correlation and not cause. But I say run with it: If you enjoy coffee, drink away. No studies have been able to link any negative health effects to drinking a couple cups o’ Joe a day, so you’ve got nothing to lose. If coffee does in fact offer some protective effects against stroke (it’s a vasoconstrictor, you know), then it’s worth the coffee breath, ladies.

Women Prefer Baryshnikov

By Dr. Nick Campos On September 10, 2010 · Add Comment · In Body

Listen up, gents. Women are attracted to dancing…yes, dahn-cing. And when it comes to dance moves, wide, sweeping, flamboyant moves are best for attracting the ladies.

In a study published this week in the journal, Biology Letters, a publication of Britain’s Royal Society, researchers found that when rating male dancers, women preferred those who had a wide range of dance movesand focused on the head, neck and torso. Think popping and locking.

Researchers from Northumbria University and the University of Gottingen in Germany asked 19 men aged 18 to 35 who were not professional dancers to dance in a laboratory for one minute to a basic drum rhythm. They filmed the men’s movements with a dozen cameras, and then turned those movements into computer-generated avatars so the study could focus on moves, not appearances.

Scientists then showed the dancing avatars to 37 women, who rated their skills on a scale of 1 to 7. Women rated the best dancers as those with wider, sweeping movements and those that had a variety of moves.

Evolutionarily speaking, women may subconsciously judge how fit a man is by the fluidity of his dancing. According to one of the study’s authors, Nick Neave, an evolutionary psychologist at Northumbria University, their research was likely subjective and different cultures would have different measures for what constitutes good dancing. He advised bad dancers to improve their core body moves.

“The movements around the head, neck and trunk were the most important,” he said. “The good dancers had lots of different movements and used them with flair and creativity.”

I don’t think men who are bad dancers should get down on their chances of attracting females. I think in general women are just attracted to men that will dance. Embarrassingly bad dancing will probably repel before attract women, but as long as a man is willing to move, I think he should be okay.

Dancing is movement. Movement is health. Health is attractive. So dance—it’s that simple.