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Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: Njuri Ncheke on May 27, 2021, 01:48:31 PM
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on male-female occurrence.
In Summary
Generally, it is easier for men to develop not just upper-body strength, but strength in any body part, compared to women, because they have more testosterone.
However, in the modern world, personal upper-body strength is becoming irrelevant to payoffs from economic policies.
by JOHN MUCHANGI
Science Editor
News
27 May 2021 - 06:30
Rural women in Rift Valley are now physically stronger than men.
FORCED ENDURANCE: Rural women in Rift Valley are now physically stronger than men.
It is widely proven that, on average, men are physically stronger than women. A big part of that strength lies in the upper-body muscles.
However, a study by scientists from Harvard and Moi universities shows that traditional chores thrust on women are forcing them to develop rare upper-trunk strength.
In some communities, they are even stronger than men.
The scientists demonstrated that among the Kalenjin, rural women are the strongest people in the community, physically stronger than the rural men.
“We specifically compared men and women from an urban community with professions that do not involve manual labour with rural subsistence farmers, including women who frequently carry heavy loads,” they said.
They sampled 74 Kalenjin adults aged 18-61, with females being on average 35 years and males 39 years.
The 74 were subjected to trunk muscle endurance and strength tests, while muscle flexibility was measured with exercise tests and electromyography (which records the electrical activity produced by skeletal muscles).
“Rural women had higher trunk extensor and flexor endurance than rural men,” authors say in the study published in the American Journal of Human Biology on May 14.
A flexor muscle is the muscle that bends a joint, whereas an extensor muscle straightens a joint.
“Urban women had lower trunk flexor and extensor endurance than urban men,” they added.
Both urban women and men were also weaker compared to the rural women, the study shows.
Generally, it is easier for men to develop not just upper-body strength, but strength in any body part, compared to women, because they have more testosterone.
However, women who deliberately engage in endurance training can grow as much muscles as men.
The researchers looked for an explanation why rural Kalenjin women were stronger. They attributed it to the traditional gender roles that often disadvantage rural women in society.
“High levels of physical activity among nonindustrial subsistence farmers, particularly head carrying among women, appear to be associated with high trunk muscle endurance and strength, which may have important benefits for helping maintain musculoskeletal health,” they said.
The study is titled ‘Trunk muscle endurance, strength and flexibility in rural subsistence farmers and urban industrialised adults in western Kenya’.
Other institutions involved in the study are US's University at Buffalo, Rwanda's University of Global Health Equity, and Pemja Primary School.
In most species on earth—such as insects, fish and birds of prey—it is actually females that are larger and stronger than males, because they carry thousands of eggs in their bodies at once.
But most land-dwelling vertebrates, including human beings, are exceptions to this rule.
Over the millennia of evolution, men have used their gender’s greater capacity for physical power as justification for self-entitled to power against women, scientists say.
“In studies conducted in Argentina, Denmark, and the United States, men with greater upper-body strength more strongly endorsed the self-beneficial position,” said five scientists in a separate study published in the Psychological Journal.
However, in the modern world, personal upper-body strength is becoming irrelevant to payoffs from economic policies.
The scientists said people with good musculoskeletal health can carry out the activities they want to with ease and without discomfort.
The Moi University scientists explained why they carried out their study.
They said high muscle endurance, and strength help maintain musculoskeletal health. But there is evidence for tradeoffs among people in rural and urban centres.
The study was carried out to test if these observations extend similarly to both men and women in rural and urban environments.
-Edited by SKanyara
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Pundit acha pombe ni kubaya.
Sorry merge these thread with yours dint see it.
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Shida ya Kale men ni mbili 1) pombe and 2) kula chakula ya paka (ugali+milk) - so they have become very weak -
Pundit acha pombe ni kubaya.
Sorry merge these thread with yours dint see it.
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Greater endurance? Possible. Stronger? Nonsense.
I am convinced you will get similar results just about anywhere in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Shida ya Kale men ni mbili 1) pombe and 2) kula chakula ya paka (ugali+milk) - so they have become very weak -
Pundit acha pombe ni kubaya.
Sorry merge these thread with yours dint see it.
That's how it started in Nyeri and then engulfed whole kikuyuland. Kikuyu men would eat githeri just plain boiled or even go hungry Wanaume like njamba are beaten senseless by there wives kama burukenge. No say No help we really pity them.
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That's how it started in Nyeri and then engulfed whole kikuyuland. Kikuyu men would eat githeri just plain boiled or even go hungry Wanaume like njamba are beaten senseless by there wives kama burukenge. No say No help we really pity them.
Gender based violence is largely inflicted on women by men, you guys are making a big deal out of a few sensationalized cases. If women had men's upper body strength violence would be history. Truism of cowards always preying on the weak....
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That's how it started in Nyeri and then engulfed whole kikuyuland. Kikuyu men would eat githeri just plain boiled or even go hungry Wanaume like njamba are beaten senseless by there wives kama burukenge. No say No help we really pity them.
That journalist is
Gender based violence is largely inflicted on women by men, you guys are making a big deal out of a few sensationalized cases. If women had men's upper body strength violence would be history. Truism of cowards always preying on the weak....
Or just reversed. They would be beating up the men. That's why I doubt the authenticity of that claim. More likely it's just the usual sloppy works we have come to expect from Kenyan journalists.
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Power is now more than physical strength. If it was pure physical strength - the black males - would be beating everyone down. But it includes economic strength. Men when they were fending for family - had both muscular physical strength to beat women - and also controlled the food stores. That changed when white man acquired guns - and enslaved the black man to work for him.
Anyway fast forward to 2021 in Kenya - things are changing - women have been empowered.
You cannot beat a breadwinner - who is now increasingly become female. This for educated women.
For rural women - they may be growing stronger - but well the land still belongs to the man - and a woman even if they the strength to overpower a man - will have to think twice before committing what could lead to divorce or separation.
To remain or be powerful - be wealthy. Don't waste time with upper body strength :)
Gender based violence is largely inflicted on women by men, you guys are making a big deal out of a few sensationalized cases. If women had men's upper body strength violence would be history. Truism of cowards always preying on the weak....
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There's foreign agents who have infiltrate RV research with aim bringing down athletic power.
First it was mursik cancer....
Then now fit as fiddle kalenjin man is pitted against obese woman with zero endurance.
They should put money on obesity and similar western problem.
The slim figure had earlier been explained as evolutionary among nilote and cushite to beat harsh hot sahara weather. Then what changed?
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Men are getting weaker simply due to poor nutrition and change even in Meru its slowly happening but I don't expect it to get to levels of okuyu and nkalenjini. Meru men brute primitive force keeps women in toe and respectful.