Beautiful women ruinous to a chap’s health, eggheads say
Meeting a beautiful woman can be bad for your health, scientists have found. Just five minutes alone with an attractive female raise the levels of cortisol, the body’s stress hormone, according to a study from the University of Valencia. via Beautiful women can be bad for your health, according to scientists – Telegraph.
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There you are then. Or rather there I go. It seems that everything the Jet-Set Hobo likes really is bad for his health, not to mention his bank statement, which being a gent, he won’t. Well, quelle surprise! We’ll take the lost brain cells, pickled liver and polluted lungs as read. And now, according to some killjoys in white coats, we can add Cortisol to the mix, and throw in heart disease, diabetes and hypertension. Well, well, well. In the words of the great and, appropriately, late Warren Zevon, “Life’ll kill ya”…
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Oh, that’s easy. Meet a pretty girl, throw a blanket over her.
Seems a bit drastic Caitlin.
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