Women's Health Blog

Women who view dark side of every thing in their life are more prone to suffer from a heart disease as compared to women, who remain positively tuned to the happenings in life and always trust some one instead of treating with doubtful manner. This observation has been made by researchers and reported in various medical journals.

The Differential Factor in Women:

In women the declining sex hormones after the age of 40 are cause of great adjustment problems as well as affecting heart health. Diminishing hormones are also responsible for causing cancers or genital organs and are responsible for the ill health.

Decline in hormones are also responsible for triggering certain psychological misunderstandings faced by them at the family front during their postmenopausal phase. While dealing with postmenopausal problems the psychological factor has also to be looked into. The situation can be greatly improved, by understanding the social factors and accepting, the present situation instead of remaining in the past and spoiling the present.

Role of Optimism in Good Health:

In a scientific study optimism presented by the participant women was assessed by their response to a designed questionnaire to elicit the necessary information by their general behavior statements in different situations encountered by women in day to day life and their interaction responses.

The questionnaire had certain standardized statements to which, they were required to respond, whether they were in agreement to the statement or not agreeing. The responses obtained were examined and necessary scoring done following a standard pattern.

The observation was that if the score in terms of optimism is around 25 percent. The chance of getting a heart attack was lower by 9 % and death to other causes shall be 14 % lower as compared to optimism score below 25 %. In contrast women, who had higher pessimistic tendency, had 16 % more chances of dying as compared to normal group.

On the count of optimism or pessimism the results equally apply to men and women. There have to be certain factors, which interact in a given situation and result into a predictable behavior patterns and uniformity in responses produced and affecting the human being in a uniform manner irrespective of other variable factors like age, sex, caste or creed of the individual. The quality of optimism is usually found in individuals, having high bracket income and they do not have to stretch harder for earning income to comfortably make their two ends meet.

Daily life schedule encounters three variations of possibilities having relation to the life style of the individual:

• Women good in maintaining optimistic views had a very stable health risk status.
• Had lower High Blood Pressure, Diabetes history, usually they do not smoke and included moderate exercise in their daily routines.
• The lower Health Risk Factors can be assumed to be on account of their higher life style status.

Another positive finding is that optimist women have great chances to consult their doctor from time to time and follow their advice rigidly without deviation. They also take care of the good balanced nutrition in their diet.

Role of Attitude in Good health:

Optimistic women have better attitudes towards their life’s achievements and expectations. In such a trial pessimistic patients are also included in the group and the attempt is to change their feelings and resulting effect recorded by the team of doctors in agreement with their feelings

All kind of possibilities were considered in the controlled group study by including wide variety of patients depicting pessimism and without any discrimination attempt was made to allow effective changes in their thinking and observed any change in their health.

Conclusive Observations:

The observations confirmed that even the most difficult persons responded in a positive manner and reacted to the suggestions made and experienced good health benefits.

The conclusion of the study is that remaining optimistic is the key to keeping good health. There is a definite relation between the mind and body systems making it clear if your mind is clear of negative thoughts body gets opportunity keep it self healthy.