Beware of defensiveness- it's bad for your health!
Before you put on the boxing gloves, you might want to read this article from Rodale. It turns out defensiveness can be seriously detrimental to women's health. The key, then? Adopting healthy stress management strategies.
Turns out that men who were more defensive tended to exhibit fewer signs
of stress, compared to less-defensive men. Whereas women showed the
opposite response: Those who were more defensive showed more signs of
stress, including
increased blood pressure and heart rate.
