Women With Diseases Feel More Pain Then Men

It’s now proven that women with common diseases feel more pain than men with the same disease. A study by Stanford University School of Medicine investigators looked at how hospital patients with diseases reported their pain on a scale of one to ten, before being treated.

In all cases, women reported their pain to be higher.

“It's still not clear if women actually feel more pain than men do,” said Butte, one of the study authors. "But they're certainly reporting more pain than men do. We don't know why. But it's not just a few diseases here and there, it's a bunch of them -- in fact, it may well turn out to be all of them. No matter what the disease, women appear to report more-intense levels of pain than men do."

Although this is unrelated, it made me wonder if the same applies to working out. Can men endure higher level of pain during workouts? I can’t seem to find anything on this on the internet. But I know from working out with one of my guy friends the other day that his tolerance to the squats and jumps was just about the same as mine. :)

What do you think causes women to have more pain? Do you think that it means we are wimpier, as the study author is kind of implying above?

Binge Drink Coffee to Prevent Diabetes

If you notice more people running around, all hyped up on caffeine at work tomorrow, you know why.

An article posted on Yahoo! News today wrote that by drinking four or more cups of coffee each day, you lower your risk of diabetes by 50 percent. The article sites a new study published in the Journal of Food and Agricultural Chemistry. Also, with each cup you drink after that, your risk lowers 7 more percent.

(BTW, have you seen this new caffeine inhaler? Crazy.)

Considering I had the equivalent about two cups in my mug this morning, I guess I have a few more to go before midnight! Speaking of my mug, have you seen these no spill mugs?














My boyfriend bought me this basic one, and I have to say, being able to throw my coffee in my purse in the morning is really nifty!