Health Practices

Men and women have distinctly different lifestyles; they differ not only in whether they adopt certain health-related habits but also in their concerns about, or attitudes towards health. On the positive side, women appear to be more attuned to health issues and thus are more likely to make healthy lifestyle choices. On the negative side, women are significantly less physically active than men. In addition, certain health practices of young women show some disturbing trends: they are five times as likely as young men to be underweight, and their smoking rates exceed those of young men, the only age group in which this is so. This shows that people do not care enough on their health.