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“I just finished taking an evening class at Stanford. The last lecture was on the mind-body connection – the relationship between stress and disease. The speaker (head of psychiatry at Stanford) said, among other things, that one of the best things that a man could do for his health is to be married to a woman, whereas for a woman, one of the best things she could do for her health was to nurture her relationships with her girlfriends.
Women connect with each other differently and provide support systems that help each other to deal with stress and difficult life experiences. Physically this quality “girlfriend time” helps us to create more serotonin – a neurotransmitter that helps combat depression and can create a general feeling of well being. Women share feelings whereas men often form relationships around activities. They rarely sit down with a buddy and talk about how they feel about certain things or how their personal lives are going. Jobs? Yes. Sports? Yes. Cars? Yes. Fishing, hunting, golf? Yes. But their feelings? Rarely.
Women do it all of the time. We share from our souls with our sisters/mothers, and evidently that is very good for our health. He said that spending time with a friend is just as important to our general health as jogging or working out at a gym. (HOLLA!!!)
There’s a tendency to think that when we are “exercising” we are doing something good for our bodies, but when we are hanging out with friends, we are wasting our time and should be more productively engaged—not true. In fact, he said that failure to create and maintain quality personal relationships with other humans is as dangerous to our physical health as smoking! (SAY WHAT???)
So every time you hang out to schmooze with a gal pal, just pat yourself on the back and congratulate yourself for doing something good for your health! We are indeed very, very lucky. Sooooo let’s toast to our friendship with our girlfriends! Evidently it’s very good for our health.”
Diet Calendar Entries for 19 May 2013:
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834 kcal
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Fat: 15.17g | Prot: 44.57g | Carb: 135.22g.
Breakfast: Milk (Nonfat), Peanut Butter, Kroger Multi-Grain Sandwich Slims. Lunch: Kroger Lite Cherry Yogurt, Kraft Fat Free Catalina Salad Dressing, Red Tomatoes, Mushrooms, Baby Spinach. Snacks/Other: Kroger Caramel Mini Rice Cakes. more...
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2066 kcal
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Activities & Exercise:
Sleeping - 8 hours, Resting - 6 hours, Desk Work - 10 hours. more...
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Thank you for a very interesting post. Accidentally read it as it flashed on my screen. I am not a typical woman and always found it easier to connect to men, than to women. It took me years of effort to learn to talk about small nothings with women and enjoy it. I always enjoyed coversations with men more - information, opinions, practical advice (though no sports, thank you). Now that I am getting older and my female friends are less concentrated on competing for male attention and more on actual conversation, I find them more interesting. But the idea is still true, and I do have a couple of very close female friends, whom I can tell practically anything, and whom I know since childhood.
19 May 13 by member: Ingria
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This means I am doomed! I do think there are men that will listen to women (as a female friend) but they are few. Men tend to not want to hear details of something. I have always had more men friends than women, but mostly because women tend to have a lot of drama and it frustrates me. However, I DO talk to my Mom almost daily and I talk to my sister quite frequently too.
I think mostly women can 'vent' to a woman easier. If you vent to a man he wants to 'fix it' and we don't necessarily want it fixed we just want it off our chests.
Great entry. I am trying to crawl out from under the mountains of work I have and get back on here. I have missed you!!
21 May 13 by member: jaime30024
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