Posted on 08/11/2009 9:34:18 AM PDT by Clemenza
TUESDAY, Aug. 11 (HealthDay News) -- It's no secret that men don't like to go to the doctor, but new research finds they're especially likely to stay home if they're big on being macho.
Middle-aged men who are most devoted to traditional beliefs about masculinity are half as likely as other men to get routine medical care, researchers report.
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The most common symptom of coronary artery disease is sudden death.
Macho was always a negative word in America, we always used the word masculine to describe men’s behavior, macho was used to describe that weak, ugly, unmasculine behavior of some men in Latin countries, think quiet, self-effacing, gentlemanly cowboy hero and the cavalry soldiers being “masculine” while the Mexican bandido camp is full of “macho” males, mistreating and beating their women and acting overtly and exaggeratedly male.
The feminist movement and the media started using the ugly, foreign word “macho” in the 1970s as a derogatory, replacement for the words “masculine” or “manly” as a way to degrade the image of positive manly traits.
Yeah, I know. I had a 42 year old golf buddy drop dead of that.
Wuss. That's what duct tape and whiskey are for.
Well, I hang my head in shame... Still, the ER nurse told me that I was probably less than 2 hours from passing out and dying of sepsis the last time I went to the hospital.
Mark
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