I used to go to the gym four times a week. Used to. Now the only exercise I get is a quick walk from the train to work and a quick walk with the dog a few times a week. Exercise increases endorphins which makes us happier in the long run. Picking up after other people can get you down.
Play-Doh does not make me happy. When you are young and working it can be really easy to make friends. As a new mum 14 years ago I found myself spending a lot of time alone at home with a newborn. Meanwhile, all the single, childless chicks I knew were out having fun.
When you have children and a husband suddenly your routine is dictated to you by everyone else. One kid needs to be at footy training, another needs to be picked up from daycare, and the husband is working early so you need to do the school run before work and the other kid needs to visit the shops for new shoes and so on and so forth….
How many times have you lied to your partner about your spending habits? I have to say I do it a lot. Should kids have screentime limits? The West Australian. Women may still struggle to achieve equality in many spheres of life.
To be less disposable, however, is a blessing that offers some compensation. There is evidence from studies in rodents that cells in a female body do repair damage better than in the body of a male and that surgical removal of the ovaries eliminates this difference.
As many dog and cat owners can attest, neutered male animals often live longer than their intact counterparts. Indeed, the evidence supports the notion that male castration might be the ticket to a longer life. Might the same be true of humans? Eunuchs were once members of the elite in many societies. In China, boys were castrated to enable them to serve the emperor without the risk of impregnating his concubines.
In Europe, such extreme practices were used to retain the singing qualities of boys as they moved into adolescence. The historical record is not good enough to determine if eunuchs tend to outlive normal healthy men, but some sad records suggest that they do. A number of years ago castration of men in institutions for the mentally disturbed was surprisingly commonplace.
In one study of several hundred men at an unnamed institution in Kansas, the castrated men were found to live on average 14 years longer than their uncastrated fellows. Nevertheless, I doubt that many men—myself included—would choose such a drastic remedy to buy a few extra years. Already a subscriber? Sign in. Thanks for reading Scientific American. Create your free account or Sign in to continue. See Subscription Options. Go Paperless with Digital.
Get smart. Sign up for our email newsletter. Sign Up. Support science journalism. Dolan, a professor of behavioural science at the London School of Economics, said that the latest evidence showed that our traditional measures of success, such as getting married and having babies, no longer correlate with our modern notions around happiness.
As for men? It was quite the opposite. When the spouse is not present: fucking miserable," he said at the Hay Festival, in Wales. According to Dolan, men benefited from marriage because it helped them "calm down". She, on the other hand, has to put up with that, and dies sooner than if she never married.
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