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The lockdown is testing millions in many ways and Pove Pora host Vishnupriya Bheemineni is no exception. The talented host took to Instagram to make an honest confession about her overweight and even pledged to lose over 6kgs in one month. She feels that this confession can help her be more conscious about her food intake and requested fans to wish her luck on her new resolution.Am so tired... of not losing weight ...People say if we share our load from the heart, it feels fine ... ala m trying to share my weight iam 75 :-/ L iam overweight now .... so iam challenging muself to loose 6 kgs by this month ending . It shld not be hard for me coz generally my metabolism is crazy good . So hoping because of this honest confession my mouth will be conscious about what iam stuffing inside .... arrey hadh hona ha ii need everything whatever i see on tv now m putting myself on spot .. i dont know how else to stop meSo wish me lucky my beautiful ppl (sic), reads her Insta story.In her recent chat session with fans online, Vishnupriya showered her love for Sreemukhi and her other besties. She is currently collaborating with Sreemukhi, Jabardasth fame Avinash for a comedy series online.Vishnupriya is leaving no stone unturned to keep herself motivated during the lockdown. She has recently given her daily work out an interesting twist by dancing her heart out to rapper Badshahs recent chartbuster.On the career front, Vishnupriya is currently co-hosting Pove Pora along with Sudigali Sudheer. She turned a household name with this show. Her on-screen chemistry with Sudheer is widely adored.

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The wide spread of the Coronavirus has taken a toll on the entire globe. A number of different governments have announced total lockdown in order to curb the spread of the virus. While staying at home, it is important to keep your health in mind. Getting some first-hand exercise might be a difficult scenario but getting proper nutrition is not that difficult. Here are some healthy snacks to munch on during COVID-19 work from home days.

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Chia seeds are usually loaded with high fibre that can easily be included in all types of diets, including vegan and ketogenic diets. Chia seeds are also high in antioxidants that help by reducing inflammation and improvingheart health. Although the seeds themselves don't have much flavour,they do provide an interesting, jelly-like consistency when soaked in liquid. For the Chia seed pudding, youll need:

Mix chia seeds and water in a small bowl. Cover and refrigerate the mixture for at least 30 minutes. Stir in cocoa powder, peanut butter, and sweetener.

Nuts are the most ideal and nutritious munchies. It is often considered that eating nuts surely helps by reducing the risk of heart disease, prevent certain cancers, depression, and other illnesses. Despite being relatively high in fat, they are extremely filling. A number of researches have suggested that that eating nuts can also help you lose weight. It is because nuts provide the perfect balance of healthy fat, protein, and fibre. Usually, nuts contain 180 calories in a 1-ounce (28-gram) serving. Nuts can also be taken anywhere as it does not require refrigeration.

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Consuming oats is a simple and quite efficient way to add protein to any diet. Using half a cup (120 ml) of dry oats will serve approximately 6 grams of protein and 4 grams of fibre. This serving also gives good amounts of magnesium, zinc, phosphorus and folate. While some do not consider oats as a complete protein, no other commonly consumed grains like rice and wheat can providethe number of protein oats does. One can easily use oats in a number of different techniques starting from oatmeal to veggie burgers. They can also be grounded into flour and used for baking and is a perfect choice of vegan food rich in protein.

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I'm heading into week six (has it really been that long?!) of having my kids home from school while working from home and social distancing. I'm focusing on keeping us all safe and healthy, which means I've been cooking and baking up a storm of healthy meals, but exercise? Even though I was used to working out six days a week, those first two weeks I didn't feel motivated to work out at all.

My brain needed a pause to process what the hell was going on. I needed time to allow my emotions and fears to come to light, and working out just didn't feel right. When I did head downstairs to my home gym, thinking that forcing myself to do a home workout would help me feel better, it just made my mind race to how much I missed my gym. I had thoughts like: "When will I be able to go back? What if my family gets sick? What if my husband and I get sick at the same time and there's no one to take care of our kids? What if I never hug my parents again?" It was all too much.

By week three, I started to accept and appreciate this new normal of slowing down, staying home, and spending time with my family. At the end of that week is also when we got the official word from the governor that school would be closed for the rest of the year. Shocked was my first response, but relief was my second. Things felt so up in the air until then, and even though this was going to be so incredibly hard, I felt settled knowing what to expect and how to move forward.

In my heart, I knew I needed a new routine that included taking time for me. Those early morning workouts were more than just exercise, and I naturally started to feel the inner pull to regain that time for myself again. Since I can no longer go to my CrossFit gym or yoga studio, and I'm also juggling homeschooling the kids and working, here's what needs to happen in order to feel inspired to exercise.

I used to wake up at 5:15 a.m. to make it to my 5:45 a.m. CrossFit classes, but the first two weeks of social distancing, I was staying up late watching the news, and wouldn't wake up until after 7:00 a.m. I've slowly been going back to my old sleeping schedule this is taking a LOT of inner motivation! I wake up early and do a workout from 5:30 to 6:15 a.m., and then I work from 6:15 to 8:15 a.m. Or now that the weather is warming up, I'll just work from 5:15 to 7:30 a.m., then go for a run. Exercising in the morning and making time for myself to be alone has really helped get my head in the right place to have a happier, more productive day.

While I used to get up early Sunday through Friday to work out, I'm giving myself the liberty to take more rest days. I see how I feel the night before, set my alarm if I want to work out, and so far this means three to five workouts a week. It feels good to honor my body instead of following a strict schedule. If I forced myself to work out six days a week, I'd feel much less motivated and probably wouldn't feel like working out at all. But who knows? Maybe this will morph into wanting to work out six days a week like I used to.

Part of the ease of my CrossFit classes was that the coaches designed the programming and they just led me through it I didn't have to do anything but show up. I tried heading into my home gym the first few days without a plan, and I spent 10 minutes trying to decide what to do, which ended up fizzling out my excitement for working out it felt like a chore.

I have a workout journal (that I've kept for years), so I started writing down the workout I'm going to do. My coaches post programming the night before so sometimes I peek at that for workout inspiration. I get the equipment I need out (which is usually just a pair of dumbbells, a jump rope, or a chair), I lay my clothes out in the bathroom, and make sure I have socks, sneakers, and a filled water bottle ready to go. Then all I need to do in the morning is wake up, get dressed, put on some music, and get moving.

I no longer have the competition of other people doing burpees faster than me or lifting heavier weights to push me, and that's part of the reason I was so upset about not being able to go to my gym. I was worried that I wasn't going to be able to maintain the same level of fitness I built up over the years because I didn't have that community motivation. I also don't have access to the same equipment and hardcore workouts barbell and rower, I miss you!

Then I finally said, "who cares?" I realized that something was better than nothing, and that my workouts right now are serving a different purpose. They need to be more gentle and simple in order for me to feel inspired to do them, and they need to make me feel better, not worse.

That first week back to working out, aside from a few early morning workouts, I also did a lot of walking. I committed to walking three miles a day because this was something I knew I could stick too. Taking two walks with my family became a new daily habit, and I could even walk inside if it was raining (I hooked an old treadmill up to my standing desk.) I also felt more inspired to do 10 minutes here and there of yoga because quietly stretching just felt so good, and was another thing I could do while my kids and dogs crawled all over me with my family.

When I feel inspired to do a 45-minute workout in the morning, I keep those very basic and not nearly as intense as the CrossFit workouts I used to do. I begin with a five-minute yoga warmup, then a 20-minute EMOM workout, choosing just four or five moves, doing 45 seconds of each with a 15-second rest. For example, I'll do burpees, dumbbell deadlifts, plank slider walks, dumbbell step-ups, and shoulder presses. After that I do four rounds of five assisted pull-ups, 10 push-ups, and 15 V-ups. These are three movements I've decided to focus on as a personal challenge to see how strong I get this helps motivate me to wake up! Then I follow up with some yoga. It's simple, easy to follow, and although I'm working my body, the simplicity of the workout acts as a sort of meditation to let my thoughts just settle.

Where I live, social distancing needs to happen through the middle of May, but I've mentally prepared myself that it could be extended. And although I still have my moments where something will set me off and bring me to tears, I'm trying to stay positive, remembering to take it one day at a time. These morning workouts for the past three weeks have been so good for my mental health. But if I'm too tired and want to sleep in, or I get interrupted by one of my kids who wants me to read them a story or make them banana pancakes, my workout doesn't happen and I'm OK with that.

I know this is only temporary, and because my family and I are healthy, I just feel so overwhelmingly grateful that I don't get upset about missing a workout. Tomorrow is another day, and another opportunity to do burpees or some sun salutations. When I look back at this time in my life, I don't want to remember how stressed I was because I didn't work out. I want to picture all the special moments I shared with my family, and how for once in my life, it was OK to slow down and enjoy the little things.

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AUSTIN, TX / ACCESSWIRE / April 13, 2020 / Apollo Endosurgery, Inc. ("Apollo") (APEN), a global leader in less invasive medical devices for gastrointestinal and bariatric procedures announced today that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has completed the review of the final Post-Approval Study (PAS) Report for the Orbera Intragastric Balloon System and accepted that all post-approval study requirements have been fulfilled.

The ORBERA Post Approval Study was a requirement following the US FDA's approval of ORBERA in August of 2015. The study was a multi-center, open label, prospective study with a primary safety endpoint and its secondary endpoint being effectiveness. All study endpoints were successfully met.

Notable study statistics include:

There were no instances of death, gastric perforation, bowel obstruction or acute pancreatitis. The most common SAE were nausea and vomiting, which tended to resolve within the first month after placement.

"As anticipated, the conclusion of the ORBERA post approval study confirms the impressive, medically-relevant weight loss from ORBERA that physicians can expect for their patients with underlying medical conditions that require them to lose up to 10% of their total body weight. The study also confirms a predictable safety result for properly selected and managed patients. The ORBERA balloon is the most studied intragastric balloon globally and the post approval study results are very consistent with ORBERA's long-standing published literature from Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific regions," said Christopher Gostout, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Apollo Endosurgery.

Obesity affects over 650 million people globally. An independent review by the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy identified ORBERA as the only intragastric balloon that met their threshold standards for the treatment of obesity.1 More than 300,000 ORBERA balloons have been distributed worldwide in over 75 countries and the medical community has been using intragastric balloons from the makers of ORBERA for over twenty years.

About ORBERA

ORBERA is an incision-less, non-surgical weight loss solution designed for adult patients suffering from obesity, who are not appropriate for or considering surgery, but for whom diet, and exercise or pharmaceutical interventions have not worked.

In a non-surgical (endoscopic) procedure, the thin and deflated ORBERA balloon is placed into the stomach. It is then filled with saline until it's about the size of a grapefruit. The procedure typically takes about 20 minutes and the patient can generally go home a few hours later. After up to 6 months, through another non-surgical procedure, the ORBERA balloon is deflated and then removed.

Once the balloon is in place, the patient works with their physician and their staff in a formal lifestyle modification program to meet their long-term weight loss goals. Coaching takes place over 12 months while the balloon is in place. The program is designed to help the patient develop sustainable, healthy habits that will help keep weight off over time.

For additional information regarding ORBERA, please visit http://www.orbera.com and for full safety information please visit http://apolloendo.com/patient-labeling-and-dfus/#

About Apollo Endosurgery, Inc.

Apollo Endosurgery, Inc. is a medical technology company focused on less invasive therapies to treat various gastrointestinal conditions, ranging from gastrointestinal complications to the interventional treatment of obesity. Apollo's device-based therapies are an alternative to invasive surgical procedures, thus lowering complication rates and reducing total healthcare costs. Apollo's products are offered in over 75 countries today and include the OverStitch Endoscopic Suturing System, the OverStitch Sx Endoscopic Suturing System, and the ORBERA Intragastric Balloon.

Apollo's common stock is traded on Nasdaq Global Market under the symbol "APEN". For more information regarding Apollo Endosurgery, go to: http://www.apolloendo.com.

2019 Apollo Endosurgery, Inc. All rights reserved. Any third-party trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners.

Cautionary Note on Forward-Looking Statements

Certain statements in this press release are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. In addition, there is uncertainty about the spread of the COVID-19 virus and the impact it may have on the Company's operations, the demand for the Company's products, global supply chains and economic activity in general. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include: reports of adverse events related to our products, outcomes of clinical studies, developments in medical technology, regulatory approvals and extensive regulatory oversight by the FDA or other regulatory bodies, unfavorable media coverage related to our products or related procedures, reimbursement decisions by private or government payors, physician adoption and recommendations of procedures utilizing our products as well as other factors detailed in Apollo's periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, including its Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019. Copies of reports filed with the SEC are posted on Apollo's website and are available from Apollo without charge. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and speak only as of the date hereof, and, except as required by law, Apollo disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances.

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Feel like taking on a fitness challenge while you're stuck in quarantine? How about one that can be done literally anywhere, like doing pushups every day? Dan Witmer of YouTube's Jump Rope Dudes set himself the task of completing 100 pushup reps every single day for 30 days; here's what he learned by the end of his month-long experiment.

"If you're a beginner and you want to start losing weight, doing pushups, or doing something every single day, that is awesome. Just taking action is a great way to get going, and pushups are not super super intense, so it's a great way to get your body acclimated to physical exercise as opposed to jumping on a bench press."

"The first thing I noticed about myself was my resistance to doing it every day," he admits. "The first six days were really easy, then after 10 days I was like, how much longer to I have to do this... But it was interesting to push through it and get it done."

Embarking on a challenge where you do the same exercise daily helps to build good habits, and it is that consistency which Witmer cites as a major plus: "If you have a weight loss or muscle building goal, being consistent is how you get there."

Not that you should expect to come out the other side of the 30 days completely ripped; Witmer also points out that this kind of challenge is good for building strength and maintaining a leaner physique, rather than for actually putting on mass. "If you want to see huge additions in muscle, you do have to lift weights. If you plan on seeing huge gains, you can't just do thousands of pushups to get that physique."

And doing 100 pushups every single day is not exactly practical in the long term. "It's extremely taxing on your body," he says. "If you're constantly working the same body parts and not giving them time to recover, they get fatigued, you can lose strength, you can get injured, and overall you're just wasting your time, because rest and eating right are actually how the muscles recover and build back up to make you stronger."

Additionally, doing the same move day in day out can lead to discomfort and even injury, Witmer explains. "It's great for discipline, it's not so great for your body; I did semi-injure myself. I think from locking my arms at the top, I started to get a swollen elbow, from doing those repetitions over and over again." Ultimately, Witmer recommends doing pushups two or three times a week in combination with other forms of cardio and weight exercises.

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CLEVELAND, Ohio - Recently, nutritionist Vanessa Spiller went shopping and was surprised at what she saw.

That trip last week "was the first time I walked into the store and went 'Whoa, things are looking a lot less full.' It was the first day I felt that way."

Spiller is a macro nutritionist with EMP 180 in Tysons Corner, Virginia. Macro nutrition focuses on protein, fat and carbs. The company she said, is "a nutrition health-coaching-based weight loss-nutrition center."

"It allows you to eat all foods being healthy," she said. "What we have to take accountability is how much of it we're eating."

Spiller starts with two key points of advice to guide shoppers:

"The main thing with pantry items is shelf life," she said. And "try to stay below 20 grams of carbs per meal or snack. Thats going to keep you on a pretty healthy range of carbohydrates."

Here are basic tips on what to buy followed by 10 tips on how to shop:

Plan accordingly

"I was telling people to plan for five days out," she said. "Now I am telling people plan for seven to 10 days out. That's No. 1."

Canned items

Tuna, chicken, salmon. Theyre just as nutritious, they just have a bit more sodium. Canned beans are one of the most nutritious items. (Tip: With canned vegetables or beans, she said, throw them in a strainer and rinse 'em. Its going to reduce the amount of sodium.)

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The key with these carbs is to watch portion sizes. If something is long-term youre going to be able to whip out some noodles with sauce. You can throw vegetables with that, you can throw beans in that. You dont even need a meat source. (Tip: To cut the carbs in some dishes, add a healthy item to the mix. So instead of a giant bowl of oats, mix with yogurt, for example.)

Nuts

Good oil

Good nut butter / peanut butter

Theres a lot you can do with peanut butter, she said. The nice thing with peanut butter is its going to go a long way. It can be an easy lunch or breakfast. Peanut butter has a long shelf life. It can go in a smoothie, she added, to get good fat and protein.

Vegetables

If you can learn to enjoy broccoli and cauliflower I think they are the highest nutritionally point vegetables on the market, frozen or fresh. Theyre pretty versatile. They can be eaten plain, they can be stir-fried. Also: Edamame, shelled or unshelled, is a good source of protein and fiber. Cauliflower rice can take the place of rice. And a frozen bag of green, yellow and red peppers also is a good buy. You can make up a quick stir fry or have a quick fajita night when you have that variety in the freezer.

Guilty pleasures

Spiller doesnt say cut out guilty pleasures like chips and cookies. I think those things should be limited. My cart included some of them. Alternative: Popcorn. Its a bit more nutritious and has more fiber. I never like to suggest staying away from anything. If youre going to enjoy cookies or chips pay attention to serving size. (Tip: Avoid this as a daily routine. Once or twice a week is preferable.)

Spiller's advice focuses on what to buy. Now here are our 10 tips and things to know on shopping with social-distancing measures in place:

Many stores are requesting households limit the number of shoppers to one.

Check out stores' online curbside-pickup and delivery programs.

If you shop in stores limit meandering. Make a list, stay organized, remain focused.

This is not a time to be pulling out every single melon or reading every ingredient on package labels.

It's easy to be cognizant of social-distancing measures near cashiers as many stores have markers down and shields up. But do the same in aisles near fellow customers.

Before you leave home, check out stores' websites for special hours set aside for first responders, elderly and those classified "vulnerable." If you are not in those categories, don't go.

Bring a sanitizing cloth to clean cart handles, or wear disposable gloves. You also can use the wipes to open freezer doors.

If paying with cash, ask the cashier if they prefer that you hand the bills to them or leave them on the counter shelf or conveyor belt.

Before leaving your house to shop, the last thing you should do is wash your hands. And when you return it should be the first thing you do.

Track how busy the store is by time and day. Forbes is reporting weekends are the busiest times to go.

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Racial bias, or at least blind spots, has also been embedded in dress codes, perhaps most notably in prohibitions on hairstyles popular among black people, such as braids and afros. Its a lack of perspective or empathy, says Angela Hall, an associate professor at the Michigan State University School of Human Resources and Labor Relationsa thoughtlessness about what might make someone elses life more complicated. But of course, the impact can be far less benign: Employment law is riddled with cases like that of a black woman who in 2010 had a job offer rescinded because she refused to cut her dreadlocks; the companys dress code stipulated only that hairstyles be businesslike, professional, and not excessive.

Hall notes that changes to work itself have spurred a reconsideration of what constitutes work clothes. On the day we spoke, schools in East Lansing were closed for a snowstorm, so she was working and parenting simultaneously. And the more that work leaves the officean evolution that may well be accelerated by the coronavirusthe harder it becomes to associate work with a particular mode of dress. The growing pains of that process have already created an icon of the contemporary workplace, however aesthetically unfortunate: the Patagonia power vest.

The seepage of work beyond the office is one of the defining experiences of modern employmentand from one perspective, the erasure of dress codes isnt helping. In the past, you could come home and take off your uniform or office attire with the knowledge that you were totally free until the next day, mentally and physically. Now many people wear the same jeans they wore to work to cook dinner, cellphone and laptop never too far from reach, the mind and body never totally disconnected from labor.

Even the mass entertainments that have made the suit-and-tie look such an enduring shorthand for professionalism are beginning to fade, no doubt because the same young Americans who now constitute the majority of the broader labor pool have real influence in shaping what ends up on your screens. TV series such as Silicon Valley and Superstore depict occupational aesthetics as something closer to what theyve been for millions of Americans for the past decade: people wearing the same clothes to their job that theyd wear to the movies or to lunch with a friend, sometimes complemented by a company-issued jacket or an ID-carrying lanyard.

Gurung, Cawood, and Hall all agree that the mandate for greater fairness in the workplacespurred by nondiscrimination laws and the need to retain workers in a tight labor marketwill likely spell the end of the dress code as we know it, sooner rather than later. For traditionalists, this might sound like an abandonment of pride and professionalism, but in reality, Cawood says, companies that overhaul, simplify, or drop their dress code rarely do anything but make their employees happier. Regulating bad behavioreverything from being a smelly desk neighbor to sexual harassmentdoesnt require rules about pantyhose or facial hair. Cawood points to General Motors as a model for policing how employees adorn themselves, even if it means managers actually have to manage. The entire dress code is two words: Dress appropriately.

Ultimately, what such simple dictates acknowledge is that workers are adults, not babies at productivity day care. People just generally know how to self-govern, and I dont think you need these archaic rules to punish that outlier that may or may not occur, Hall said. Just cover the things you want covered and call it a day.

This article appears in the May 2020 print edition with the headline Kill the Office Dress Code.

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If youre a mom, youve probably laughed at the viral videos of other moms chronicling their bonkers days while being stuck inside with their children. In my regular communication with girlfriendscommiserating, talking each other off ledges, and discussing how much wine is too much wineI have received many of the same text: You got this, mama (usually paired with the flexing bicep emoji). The sisterhood has been a silver lining during this wild storm, but I keep coming back to a lingering question:

Where are the men?

I know where my man is. I can see him right now, as I compose this essay in the Notes app of my iPhone while helping my two-year-old put diapers on her dolls. He is sitting at his work station, going about his life pretty much as normal.

To be fair, I went on leave from my full-time job a week before the country shut down. Why, you might ask? Well, in my attempts to do it all (working full-time, writing books, mom-ing), Id started to acquire a number of medical issues: insomnia, heart palpitations, unwanted weight loss, anxiety requiring medication, and recurrent colds and infections. When a work situation triggered my first-ever panic attack, my doctor said, Enough is enough.

I was supposed to resume working (from home) this week, but decided to extend my leave upon realizing it would be impossible to work and care for my daughter given the dynamic in my household, a dynamic that has come into sharp relief during this crisis. What has happenedand what has shocked me, as someone who considers herself a feministis that I have bent and twisted myself to accommodate my husband. I have become that wife who takes care of everything so that he can focus on work.

Please know: My husband is not a jerk. He is not a slacker. He cleans maniacally. He does the dishes. He changes diapersnot nearly as many as I change, but whos counting? (Me. Im counting.) A few weeks ago, I walked in on him clipping my daughters fingernails and I nearly had an orgasm.

So, yes, he helps.

But, no, it is not 50/50.

In the past two weeks, I have done an estimated 71% of the childcare; my husband has done 29%. I can calculate this so precisely because I do nearly everything for our daughter except for a couple-hour reprieve in the afternoon (my friend said, You get TWO HOURS?! as if the idea of mandating any time to myself was radical).

Because Im on leave from my full-time job (which I realize is a huge privilege), it makes sense that I do more of the child care. But, I am confident the percentages would remain relatively the same if I resumed work. My husband would remain engrossed in his laptop, and I would be left to bend and twist, no doubt exacerbating all the medical issues that led me to take leave in the first place.

Despite the fact that Im doing the lions share of the child care during this pandemic, I continue to suggest (to myself, to others) that my husband is equally involved. The other day, I posted a photo of him holding a bunch of my daughters dolls with the caption, Dad-ing so hard. The truth behind the photo: He was just transporting all her dolls from her crib because I could not carry her and all the dolls. After the transport, he went to his corner to work for nine hours.

The main reason I dont tell the whole truth is that I really want to believe that I have a 50/50 household. Because I know thats what I should have. Thats what I was told I could have growing up in an age of female empowerment. If I admit I dont have it, what does that say about me? That I am a failed feminist?

In previous generations, there was an accepted script: Women did all the housework and child care; men brought home the long-lauded bacon. When a revolution allowed women to see that they could bring home bacon too, the script got revised. Or, rather, one half of it did. We were told girls can do whatever boys can do, but nobody talked about boys doing what girls do. Thats left women to do it all (and end up with a laundry list of medical concerns).

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In a way, our generation of women is letting men get away with less than 50/50 because we dont want to admit that we havent demanded 50/50. We make up all kinds of excuses: Hes just not wired for child care like I am. We wear our subjugation like a badge of honor: Im just better at it than he is. Men are more than happy to abide this storyline: Wow, babe, youve got everything handled! We raise our fists with pride: Women should rule the world! Women probably could rule the world, but we are ignoring the other halfmen need to support them better so they can.

Again, I do not think all husbands are jerks. Some are. Most are just caught up in a system that predates our existence. Some may genuinely believe that mother knows best. They may lack confidence in themselves as fathers and default to biology being the reason. Mothers may believe this too and, in effect, step up as the primary caregiver. This perpetuates a vicious cycle: women step up, men step back. There you have ita dynamic in the marriage is established.

When I realized this dynamic in my own marriage and expressed discontent to my husband, he looked at me like I was speaking Swahili. When I attempted to explain how I was suffering mentally and physically with how much I felt was expected of me on a daily basis, he suggested I read books on time management. Seriously.

My husband says, I do more than most men, and I respond, Thats nice, but its not 50/50. When he says, I think it is 50/50, I dont know how to argue with that. The misperception is in his best interest; I expect he will cling to it as tightly as my daughter clings to her beloved pacifiers.

It does not surprise me that divorce filings are skyrocketing right now. I have to wonder if child care conflicts are a contributing factor. In general, the vast majority of divorces are initiated by women, and many cite unfair division of labor as a big reason. Many women are under so much pressure right nowacting as the primary parent even though their husband is home, while also juggling their own work commitments. Layer in all the general stress and anxiety of a global pandemic and its a recipe for matrimonial disaster.

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My good friend, Dr. Huong Diep, a board-certified psychologist, summed it up like this: Most couples are not used to spending this much time together and may have relied on other coping strategies (e.g. working out, happy hours with friends, nannies) to successfully navigate their relationships and child care responsibilities. There was no official handbook for child care during a pandemic; so most couples are building the plane as they fly it and praying they dont crash.

To all the people Ive misled on social media, here is our quarantine reality:

My husband, daughter, and I rarely spend time together, the three of us. I do my 8-hour shift, my husband does his 2-3-hour one, and then we have a couple hours of together time, which usually involves me cooking dinner, my daughter feeding her dolls Play-doh, and my husband on his phone beating me at Words with Friends (the other day, he said, You could beat me if you spent more than 30 seconds thinking about your moves. Im still baffled that he thinks I have more than 30 seconds available for this game).

I felt I had to extend my leave from work to avoid divorce. My husband thinks we could swing it with me working. Its easy to be optimistic with a comfortable distance from the majority of the workhe said today, regarding our daughter, Shes been so easy lately! I do worry that extending my leave will jeopardize my career long-term. Corporate America is quick to mommy-track (or lay off) women who prioritize their families. But, its even harsher on men who dare to do so. Its not that I think my husbands job matters more than mine; its that I do not see child care dynamics in my household changing soon so I need to make decisions in the interest of everyones sanity. I guess Im letting the patriarchy win. For now.

All I have to say is this: Lets just hope I dont get the virus. I am always the one who gets the viruses (#motherhood). If I get it, and Im literally bedridden, our household shit will hit our household fan. And that will be another essay entirely.

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As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, doctors are confronting the stark reality that the virus doesnt seem to kill equally. From the data available so far, weve learned that men are at a far higher risk of dying from the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, than are women.

In both Michigan and Washington state, for example, data on reported cases show more women than men have contracted the coronavirus. But men make up more than half of the deaths in both states. In New York, men have both contracted and died from the coronavirus at higher rates.

The differences in mortality are often put down to men behaving more riskily. But theres another explanation for womens immunological advantage. According to Sharon Moalem, a physician and author, women have an inherent advantage when it comes to diseases because of their two X chromosomes.

Men have an XY chromosome pairing, and it means they miss out on extra copies of some genes that could make a difference when it comes to fighting infectious diseases like that caused by the coronavirus. Hormones play a role as well: Testosterone can inhibit the immune system, while estrogen can stimulate it.

Moalem explores the topic in his book The Better Half: On the Genetic Superiority of Women. He talked with Discover recently about why women have a genetic advantage, and what that means during a pandemic like COVID-19.

Q: What advantages do women get from their two X chromosomes?

A: Having two X chromosomes was not appreciated for many years. It was always thought women simply had a backup; a spare tire. If they lacked a specific gene for color vision on the X chromosome, it was OK because they always had another X chromosome they could draw on.

But its not just that women have this extra X chromosome and its a redundancy they can swap in as they need. Females really are made of two populations of cells. Every organ and every system around the body is predominantly using one X chromosome over the other.

Many of the genes on the X chromosome have to do with making and maintaining the brain and making and maintaining the immune system. So having two populations of cells where one is predominantly using one X chromosome over the other that can interact and cooperate is an immense advantage when youre faced with unforeseen challenges in life, such as famine and pandemics.

And there are other genes on the X chromosome that are also involved in the immune system to allow it to be better at killing viruses. Two populations of cells working together is an immense advantage when I can only marshal up the same identical X chromosome in all of my cells.

Q: What are the implications of womens genetic superiority for the current coronavirus pandemic?

A: A simplified way of thinking about that is this: A specific gene on the X chromosome, TLR-7, is often used to recognize single-stranded RNA viruses like the novel coronavirus. Having two versions gives them an advantage in recognizing the virus.

Additionally, we think that COVID-19 uses its spike protein to enter cells in the body. They do that by unlocking the ACE2 protein on the surface of the cell. And, as it turns out, the ACE2 gene is on the X chromosome. Which means all of mens cells are using that same [version of the] ACE2 gene. So if they unfortunately encounter a strain of COVID-19 that has a spike protein that can perfectly unlock their ACE2 and enter their cells, men are in big trouble quickly.

On the other hand, in females cells, 50 percent are going to be using likely a slightly different version of the ACE2 than other cells. Its much more difficult for a strain of corona to have a spike protein that could equally infect both populations of cells.

Q: Are there any disadvantages to having two X chromosomes?

A: The one cost women need to bear, and it is a serious one, is a much higher risk for autoimmune diseases. For lupus, for example, its seven to nine women for every man that is affected.

Their immune system is so much more aggressive and is made up of two populations of cells, so that predisposes women to have their immune cells turn against the body.

Q: Dont some of the differences in COVID-19 mortality rates for men simply come down to behavior?

A: What I found to be intellectually lazy was a rush to blame the increased male mortality rate on behavior. Of course, proper hand washing has big implications for disease acquisition prevention, but to say thats why more men are ending up in the ICU and dying didnt really cut it for me. But thats the first thing people rushed to for an explanation.

And then we heard about smoking, tobacco use, alcohol and other factors. Which play an immense role in disease outcomes, dont get me wrong. But what Im talking about is so fundamental, starts so early in life and is the same throughout the life course.

Q: Given that women might have an immunological genetic advantage, how should this change the way we fight the coronavirus?

The realization is that we should be taking care of our male elders because theyre so much more fragile. If we were just blaming people for behavior, thats not going to make a big difference when it comes to health outcomes if in fact it just comes down to the fact that males are more fragile. So we really need to be putting efforts into either quarantining them for longer or making sure theyre not with younger family members that might be infecting them.

It would be great for us to tease out the ways in which females have immunological superiority and see can we then apply that and get male immune cells to behave in the same way.

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