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.

[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