Beautiful Women Can Be Bad for Your Health, According to Scientists

The Telegraph ^ | 03 May 2010

[nickcarraway]

Meeting a beautiful woman can be bad for your health, scientists have found.

Just five minutes alone with an attractive female raise the levels of cortisol, the body's stress hormone, according to a study from the University of Valencia.

The effects are heightened in men who believe that the woman in question is "out of their league".

Cortisol is produced by the body under physical or psychological stress and has been linked to heart disease.

Researchers tested 84 male students by asking each one to sit in a room and solve a Sudoku puzzle. Two strangers, one male and one female, were also in the room.

When the female stranger left the room and the two men remained sitting together, the volunteer's stress levels did not rise. However, when the volunteer was left alone with the female stranger, his cortisol levels rose. The researchers concluded: "In this study we considered that for most men the presence of an attractive woman may induce the perception that there is an opportunity for courtship.

"While some men might avoid attractive women since they think they are 'out of their league', the majority would respond with apprehension and a concurrent hormonal response.

[Perdogg]

ping

[wardaddy]

well I’m screwed then...lol...I’m killing myself slowly and oh so wonderfully

thank you God for a glorious death

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[Young Werther]

Yup!

Navel Engagement!

[Hoodat]

They’re bad on your wallet, too.

[b4its2late]

Helen Thomas should be in high demand.

[RckyRaCoCo]

[nhoward14]

This must mean Helen Thomas is drop dead gorgeous. Every time I see her picture my stress level skyrockets.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Duh, she isn’t out of your league man! lol But still, what a nice thing to say about your beautiful wife.

[ChocChipCookie]

This would explain a lot. My husband hasn't been healthy for a single day since we got married nearly fifteen years ago.

[chopperman]

I once won a ping pong tournament. The toughest game was against a beauty in a bikini. She wasn’t really that good but I just couldn’t keep my eyes on the ball.

[Cyclops08]

Its your fault, girls!

I work with a team of total babes.
Its hard to concentrate. I have to keep my eyes “Up here.”
I have to keep quiet and pretend to work when they discuss sessy lingerie.
No wonder I come home exhausted.

[GUNGAGALUNGA]

Damn Wardaddy you done good!! She is a knockout.

[jagusafr]

“If you want to be happy for the rest of your life
Don’t a-make a pretty woman your wife
and from my personal point of view
get an ugly girl to marry you”

Not, of course, including Mrs. Colonel.

Colonel, USAFR

[Roccus]

If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life
Never make a pretty woman your wife
So from my personal point of view
Get an ugly girl to marry you

A pretty woman makes her husband look small
And very often causes his downfall
As soon as he marries her then she starts
To do the things that will break his heart

But if you make an ugly woman your wife
you’ll be happy for the rest of your life
An ugly woman cooks meals on time
And she’ll always give you peace of mind

If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life
Never make a pretty woman your wife
So from my personal point of view
Get an ugly girl to marry you

Don’t let your friends say you have no taste
Go ahead and marry anyway
Though her face is ugly, her eyes don’t match
Take it from me, she’s a better catch

If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life
Never make a pretty woman your wife
So from my personal point of view
Get an ugly girl to marry you

Say man!
Hey baby!
I saw your wife the other day!
Yeah?
Yeah, an’ she’s ug-leeee!
Yeah, she’s ugly, but she sure can cook, baby!
Yeah, alright!

If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life
Never make a pretty woman your wife
So from my personal point of view
Get an ugly girl to marry you

[acad1228]

I work with a team of total babes. Its hard to concentrate. I have to keep my eyes “Up here.”

Pics or it ain't true!!!

[PugetSoundSoldier]

They've been watching US sitcoms again:

[Vermont Lt]

I was wondering what this was all about—this getting stressed around beautiful women?

Then I got to the part that said it affected men who “thought they were out of their league.”

Aye...there’s the problem. If you “think” they are out of your league, you will never find out. Tis better to take a walk to the batter’s box and face their fast ball. You’ll never know if you can hit it, if you stay in the dugout.

[FrankR]

"...when the volunteer was left alone with the female stranger, his cortisol levels rose."

I don't think that was his "cortisol" that was rising...(ahem)....

LOL

This is just a new way to say that "men are visual creatures". Of course these things happen around females that "arouse" the interest of men. I think it's caused by little things called "hormones" and "testosterones"...they way the good Lord designed it all to be.

Women who are not attractive don't cause that much interest, so it is bound to be "attractive" females, mostly.

Insofar as "being out of their league"...well, I've seen some knockouts with the ugliest, homely guys I've ever seen.

All guys get nervous around females...remember your first date?

[AngelesCrestHighway]

"Just five minutes alone with an attractive female raise the levels of cortisol, the body's stress hormone"..... Well then...you know what you have to do!.... Carry a picture of sasquatch with you! Wip it out and calm right down!....

[Slyfox]

GUARANTEED TO NOT RAISE MALE CORTISOL LEVELS

[Yossarian]

All guys get nervous around females...

I don't think this guy ever had that problem.

[longtermmemmory]

see beautiful woman and realize you have ugly woman or no woman at home and the stress goes up.

[nickcarraway]

There is something wrong with Freepers that on a thread about beautiful women there are many pictures of Helen Thomas and one of Barney Frank. I am starting to thing some people are secretly in love with Helen.

[Maceman]

Well, in order to keep health costs under control, I guess all beautiful women should be required to wear burkas.

They should also be liable for civil damages because of the harm they cause.

[longtermmemmory]

all hail belly girl (see protestwarrior)

[pgyanke]

...well, I've seen some knockouts with the ugliest, homely guys I've ever seen.

Two words... Lyle Lovett.

[FrankR]

I meant “guys” in the normal behavioral sense...not the gender sense...Bwawny don’t count.

[Hoosier-Daddy]

“Beautiful Women Can Be Bad for Your Health”

Maybe, but what a way to go...

[a fool in paradise]

“If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life, get an ugly girl to marry you...”

[a fool in paradise]

Has there ever been a "where are they now" post?

Or is it better to let the mystique linger on and let her remain eternally youtful?

[lefty-lie-spy]

Hear hear!! When I feel ill I just find an ugly chick for a few days until I recover.

[Lazamataz]

Damn Wardaddy you done good!! She is a knockout.

I'd ... uh....

I'd admire it respectfully from a distance while watching Wardaddy's hands closely.

[Lazamataz]

I am starting to thing some people are secretly in love with Helen.

Secretly, my ass. I'm madly in love with her, and proud of it.

[Andonius_99]

Where do you work???? Accepting engineers??? How about a janitor? I can do that, too! ;)

[GreenHornet]

Beautiful Women Can Be Bad for Your Health, According to Scientists

It's a risk I'm willing to take.

[MNJohnnie]

Total nonsense. I married a beautiful woman and my health has never been better.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"The effects are heightened in men who believe that the woman in question is "out of their league"."

Okay, now I know why it never bothered me. I never thought a woman was out of my league!!! : )

[BigIsleGal]

Me too! I hada hunch she’d show up on this thread....
To whom do we owe the honor?

/S

[longtermmemmory]

this article is for fat ugly women.

[GUNGAGALUNGA]

LOL

[B4Ranch]

If that’s the case then I should have my wife arrested. In the evening, she’ll wear these skimpy little outfits knowing that she’s raising my blood pressure. I get so worked up that I go in the bedroom to lay down on the bed and relax. and ...”But your Honor, she doesn’t let me relax!”

[nickcarraway]

Go for it.

[bmwcyle]

You three are the poorest poster on the FR.

[Slings and Arrows]

That’s no guy.

[Slings and Arrows]

I'll die happy.

[Scotsman will be Free]

Why you old rascal you.

[L,TOWM]

using the word “guy” in connection with that is stretching it beyond all semblence of its true meaning.

[Little Bill]

Stunning women Inspire men to take sword in hand conqueror the unknown and generally do Great Deeds of Valor and then the DNA test shows the kid isn’t theirs.