How well do you know your own body?? Being a man or a woman, there are umpteen things concerning your physiology and the way your body works that you yourself may not know about. While this is no attempt to ridicule the intelligence of a woman who I’m sure is sometimes smarter than man, it is a good source of information that will tell you something new about the female body. So without further ado, here are 16 unusual facts women don’t know about their bodies
The average woman’s heart weighs 8 ounces in comparison to the average man whose heart weighs 10 ounces. A woman’s heart beats faster to makes up for the small size. Whereas a man’s average heart rate is 70-72 beats a minute, a woman’s is 78-82 beats a minute.
Moreover according to a Canadian study, a woman’s circadian rhythm runs between 1.7 and 2.3 hours which is ahead of a man. This also means women usually feel tired earlier in the evening than men. The study was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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According to gastroenterologists, food passes through the digestive system of a woman at a slower rate 1/5th than that of a man. Women have smaller stomachs and hence less stomach acid is produced to break down food. According to research by the American Clinical and Climatological Association, the slow digestive rate is also linked to oestrogen the female hormone that relaxes the colon and bowel.
Oestrogen also changes the composition of digestive bile produced by the gall bladder and thus contains less food dissolving salts. As per Dr Anton Manuel, a gastroenterologist at University College Hospital, London, The rate of the movement of food through the gut in women is slower by 20% which is also why women have fewer bowel movements than men. You can tell your man now that science also proves how men are so full of shit than women.
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Science has proved why women have a stronger immune system than men. A new research paper from a study in Ghent University Belgium found that it is in a woman’s genes. The health disparities were due to genetic material called micro RNA’s found on the female chromosome X and gave women a stronger immune system than men.
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This is no surprise that a man’s hair will be coarser than a woman’s. Hair diameter also varies in averages according to races. While males also have more terminal hair on their bodies, women have what is called vellus hair on their bodies which are smaller and less visible.
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Yes!! Women burn fat slower by 50kcal a day in comparison to men. Women have 8 to 10% more body fat than men whose resting metabolic rate is 10% higher than women. The reason for this difference is because men have metabolically more active muscle and because of lean body mass, men burn 20% calories more at rest. The best way to boost up a sluggish metabolism is by building more muscle through resistance training and building up more lean body mass. This also helps you burn more calories while sleeping.
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Research at Yale University found that women have more taste buds than men. #5% of women can call themselves supertasters in comparison to 15% of men. This also means women can identify flavors like sweet, sour and bitter better than men. Women also have a greater ability to identify sweeter tastes than men.
A Danish study researching the sense of taste between primary and secondary school children through analysis of their food preferences found that girl recognized tastes better than boys.
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The chromatic sensitivity in women is directly linked to the X chromosome. A study at Brooklyn college found that women discriminated among colors better than men. Researchers believed that males need a longer light wavelength than females to identify the same shade of color.
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Women blink 14.9 times a minute in comparison to men who blink 14.5 times. This is due to the high oestrogen levels that stimulate lubricant production including in the eyes. Women who take oestrogen birth control pills blink at an average of 19.6 times a minute. Contraceptive pills affect the lenticular nucleus which is the brain’s center for involuntary blinking.
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A study in the journal of neurosciences found that the differences in the fingers of men and women allowed women to be more sensitive to touch than men. Women were able to differentiate finer surface details than men.
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Women are more physically flexible than men mainly in the hip region because they have a shallower pelvis than men. This allows for a greater range of hip motion in women. Flexibility increases during pregnancy and childbirth because of the hormones like estrogen, progesterone and relaxin produced for loosening the connective tissue in muscles.
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According to science women’s bodies produce lesser levels of the enzyme dehydrogenase in their stomachs which breaks down alcohol before it enters the blood stream. This is why alcohol affects women faster than men. As a result women suffer more severe hangovers the next morning too.
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Among unusual facts women don’t know, there is a beautiful reason for this. It is because of evolution that makes a women more alert to the sounds of a crying baby. This is why women are also more sensitive to high pitched sounds while they sleep. Several studies have proved this to be true.
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As the saying goes women 'talk nineteen to the dozen', and there is some truth in it. Research though causing a bit of controversy found that women have the tendency to speak faster than men especially in social circumstances. This is because oestrogen increases verbal fluency and testosterone decreases it.
Moreover, the major areas of the brain that are related to speech in the prefrontal cortex (part of brain governing social interaction) was found to be larger in women than in men by 23% as declared in the open Anatomy journal.
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How true!! According to research, women cry 30 to 64 times a year in comparison to men who cry 6 to 7 times. The study by Professor Ad Vingerhoets, a clinical psychologist at Tilburg University in the Netherlands found that when women cry their tears last an average of six minutes as compared to men whose tears last for 2-3 minutes. The research concluded it was the hormonal differences between men and women that made women weep longer.
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Almost 30% of women crave inedible things during pregnancy. While women do experience cravings for various types of food, inedible things aren’t ruled out too. Pica or the craving for substances of non nutritional things is common in 25-30% of children but they do occur in a certain percentage of women too. Women usually crave ice cream and pickles during pregnancy.
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This isn’t entirely among unusual facts women don’t know about their bodies, this also has nothing to do with the ability to tolerate pain which is still matter of scientific debate. A study found that women experience pain more intensely than men because of having more nerve receptors than men. The study which was one of the largest found that across a number of diseases women felt more pain than men. As for the ability to tolerate pain, there is a mixed opinion where some studies feel women tolerate pain better while new research feels vice versa.
But on a different note regardless of whether who tolerates pain better, men have much to be thankful for the fact that evolution has not given them the experience of two of the most naturally occurring painful moments in a humans life and that is painful menstruation and childbirth. For this women need to be given their due and respect in bearing up such pain.
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