Women’s health priorities: sleep, relax, drink water, exercise, before sex
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The magazine Cooking Light has found that when it comes to getting and staying healthy, women have the burner turned down pretty low on getting ‘enough sex.’ Finding time to exercise was hardly at the top of their list, either.
In an online survey, 1,020 randomly selected women over 25 were asked to rate their priorities in terms of health and well-being. The results: Right up there at the top was getting enough sleep--the other activity often conducted between the sheets. Keeping stress levels low, finding time to relax, eating healthfully, drinking the recommended amount of water: respondents listed these priorities, respectively, as their top five priorities for their personal health.
Where did they rank ‘having enough sex’? Right there, in seventh place, behind ‘finding time to exercise.’
Perhaps the women respondents didn’t value ‘having enough sex’ because there are no guidelines issued by medical specialty groups or the federal government recommending target levels of sexual activity for Americans. After all, there are recommendations for women’s top priority, sleep, as well as for nutritional intake, daily water consumption and exercise. There are, however, no specific consensus guidelines for maintaining a healthy stress level, or recommendations concerning time spent relaxing, women’s priorities two and three.
Go figure!
In other findings, the Cooking Light survey found that women would rather be seen as healthy than trendy, wealthy, powerful, beautiful, sexy or successful. The only quality they esteemed higher than healthy was smart. Most women say they look younger (69%) and feel younger (58%) than they are. And majorities say their self-confidence is influenced by their appearance (74%) and their overall health and wellness (72%).
-- Melissa Healy
