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In reply to the discussion: ACA: Setting aside the issue of cost. [View all]JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)do with the fact that the NIH focused its studies on men. Its has to do with gender based differences in metabolism and how the male and female bodies process food, respectively (I'd add other factors not related to which gender has had focus in medical studies, but why waste time on that).
Only a fool would think that the reason women are less likely to die from heart disease than men is because the NIH focused more on women than on men, in that regard.
Gender plays an important role in which illnesses men and women are likely to suffer from, respectively. Just a fact.
Look, I know its tough being a man in America today. I, like you, must struggle with all of the bigotry we face each day.
Just yesterday, my wife made me come down the basement and kill a spider.
It could have been poisonous. She didn't care.
So I had to put my life on the line, again.