Ernestine Shepherd, 7. Year- Old Bodybuilder, Says 'Age Is Nothing But A Number' (VIDEO)If you ever wanted real- world proof that age is nothing but a number, you've found it. Meet Ernestine Shepherd. It's likely that the women in your day to day life are pretty "normal" in appearance. So when you see someone whose appearance differs from what you expect it to be. Do men commit adultery more than women? And is infidelity just about sex? Here’s a look at why men cheat and how to deal with it. As a 60-year-old woman, your dietary. Unique Record. Charles Eugster is probably the oldest person in recorded history to take up body building (at age 87) and the oldest to compete and win a body. With her flat stomach, toned arms and excellent health, you'd never guess that this female bodybuilder is in her late 7. But she is - - 7. As impressive as her physique is, one of the most incredible parts of Shepherd's story is that she didn't even start working out until she was 5. Shepherd and her sister, Mildred Blackwell, decided to get fit after they tried on swimsuits and weren't happy with what they saw in the mirror. The sisters set their sights on becoming two of the oldest female bodybuilders. However, after Mildred died, the devastated Shepherd ended up with high blood pressure, panic attacks, acid reflux and depression. Then, Shepherd says her sister appeared to her in a dream, urging her to follow through with the bodybuilding dream they had conceived together. Shepherd did, and was declared the World's Oldest Performing Female Bodybuilder by the Guinness Book of World Records in 2. No medicine for acid reflux. By me out running and walking, the depression and anxiety just left me. In addition to running and working out, she eats 1. She also teaches classes at her Maryland gym, Energy Fitness. That class has grown - - some mornings everybody can't get in the room. For her students, Shepherd encourages exercise in any shape or form. I say to my senior ladies - - and the men - - 'Don't forget: Age is nothing but a number and you can get fit.'. Plus, Shepherd shares the age- defying mantra that helps keep her motivated. ET on OWN. Keep in touch! Check out Huff. Post OWN on Facebook and Twitter . Why men cheat. Why can’t you just be faithful? Any man who has ever been on the receiving end of that question, whether dodging crockery or wiping away his wife’s tears, knows that some women really want an answer. Do men who cheat really outnumber their female counterparts? Is infidelity in marriage more natural to men than women? And do some husbands think that “monogamy” is a board game? Who cheats most?“There’s no question that men cheat more than women,” says Steven Nock, Ph. D, a professor of sociology at the University of Virginia who has followed the marriages of over 6,0. You may remember from your American literature class, it was Hester Prynne who wore the scarlet letter, not the man who did her wrong.“Men and women cheat in different ways,” says Mark Epstein, MD, a psychiatrist in private practice in Manhattan and the author of Open to Desire: Embracing a Lust for Life. And the experiences are more disposable.”Infidelity in men: Does the biological argument hold up? Wives may consider their husbands disposable when they discover they’ve been cheating, but they still wonder why. Could it be a biological imperative, as some scientists have allowed? Cole Porter may have thought that birds who “do it” and bees who “do it” were falling in love, but if love is what you’re calling it, there is plenty of evidence that the animal kingdom pretty much falls in love indiscriminately. ![]() And even we Homo sapiens have spent more evolutionary time seeking multiple partners than we have in pursuit of romantic matrimony and monogamy. Continued“There is a natural tendency that is pretty hardwired in us as a species that suggests putting your seed in as many places as possible. It’s what got humanity to this point in history,” says Louanne Cole Weston, Ph. The earliest record of vegetarianism comes from Indus Valley Civilization My brother sent me over a video last week that I felt compelled to share with you. Sam “Sonny” Bryant Jr. Yahoo!-ABC News Network . All rights reserved. D, a marriage and family therapist and board- certified sex therapist in Fair Oaks, California. One could argue that men also used to beat each other with clubs. But outside of some parts of the Bronx, this practice is generally frowned upon now. And there are no country songs about it. So the fact that many men do remain faithful seems to argue for a behavioral cure to what may be only partly a biological problem. Can counseling, for instance, get a man to stop cheating? That old feeling: One reason men cheat“I don’t think anyone can be made to do anything,” says Epstein. More choices are apparent when you are aware of what is motivating you.” A lot of men, he has found in practice, cheat in the same way an alcoholic relapses.“People turn to strategies that gave them pleasure when they were younger, that worked to give meaning and pleasure to their lives,” Epstein says. Except these men are frustrated with their wives who aren’t orienting their lives around them anymore.”Addictive tendencies can be worked with, Epstein says, if the patient is willing — “but you might want to stop and not want to stop at the same time. That’s difficult.”Infidelity as a way out of marriage. Since many divorces still arise from an act of infidelity, cheating can be a man’s way of pulling the plug on a marriage he’s lost interest in. A man may feel tempted to respond to that energy; it may feel complimentary and sexy to him. Or sometimes there is a little dysfunction at home, and he feels like he is checking out his equipment in another place.”Weston says that she is always interested in what led a man to cross the line — when that no suddenly became a yes. And it depends on his level of sincerity about how he will treat her in the future. I’ve seen marriages get to a really good place when an affair has been exposed because a whole lot of truth is revealed and conversation that should have happened before does happen.”Too often married couples stop seeing marriage as an arena for the truth. They hide aspects of their lives from each other and the one relationship that should be the most grounded in honesty becomes the most corrupt. And when a man starts seeing his marriage as corrupted or complicated — even if he’s the one who’s done the corrupting and complicating — he can stop seeing the value in it. Or he can become bored.“I think one of the things that happens in marriages, and with boredom in general, is that people lose sight of the benefits they are deriving from their marriage,” says Nock. Men vastly overestimate their ability to do well outside of marriage. Women seem to do much better outside of marriage than men do,” he says, citing both the health and wealth advantages married men have over bachelors. Noting that the average age of marriage in the United States has moved to the upper 2. Nock figures that people 2. I think it has more to do with honoring her, or fulfilling her expectations about me. What else is it that marriage demands of us?”Sources. SOURCES: Steven Nock, Ph. D, professor of sociology, University of Virginia. Marriage and Men’s Lives, Oxford University Press, 1. Mark. Epstein, MD, New York, New York; author of Open to Desire: Embracing a Lust. Life, Gotham Books, 2. Web. MD Feature: “Why We Cheat.” Coontz, S.. Marriage, A History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered. Marriage, Viking, 2. Louanne Cole Weston, Ph. D, marriage and family. Fair Oaks, California. All rights reserved.
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