Re: aborigines and Goddesses

[Guest guest]

At 10:31 PM 9/9/2002 +0000, you wrote:

>Their periods often

>stop or become sporatic. How can they carry on the nature's basic

>business of continuing the species when they are like that? They

>can't do it. So there are limits on exercise for women which nature

>determines for very good reasons.

Good observation. If a woman does weight lifting, her testosterone

levels rise, and she becomes more " manly " in a way (which allows

her to build muscle). I would imagine the same is true for men:

the lifting produces MORE natural steroids. Which in a man

wouldn't hurt his sperm count, I would think.

But I kind of doubt, without birth control, that many women

could do that kind of hard running. Most of the pioneer women

in wagon trains were pregnant! If you watch those hunter/gatherer

women they are usually pregnant or hauling a kid on one hip: so

they did some lifting, but the high levels of hormones from

pregnancy and lactation wouldn't be conducive to being a runner.

Heidi