Cayley Painter's Current Event - October 21, 2010

Men better than women at sweating during exercise - study.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11492897



Researchers in Japan have discovered that the saying, "Men sweat, Women glow," is in fact, true. It may sound odd, but tests have shown that men are more prone to be efficient at sweating during laboring activities including exercises. This could be bad news for women. Sweating is the bodies' natural defence to heat. If you don't sweat as much, then you are more likely to be affected by heat in negative ways. So this means that women are more susceptible than men to getting heat stroke. This also means that women have less bodily fluid than men.

I have never heard of this before i read this article. I think it explains a lot. When you see a male athlete performing you often see their forehead covered in a thick sheen of sweat. Whenever I've seen women althletes, I have never seen them sweat as much, unless they are performing a strenuous sport. This may give researchers and scientists a basis to study off of so they might find ways to prevent women from getting as hot as they do faster.