Article: Of men and chipmunks: ways to battle stress.

Bud Simmons was saying in his even-tempered voice that men are not good to themselves. They drive themselves to the edge about everything. Is it hormones? Are they really that different from women?

"Women don't wreck themselves like men do," says Bud, a registered massage therapist at the Central Y on Vaughan Street. He knows about men's tenseness. Some men's bodies on his table are like violin strings. It takes a 30 minute massage to iron them out. A valuable treatment for $20, far superior and healthier than several belts of scotch.

On Karen Barker's table, the massage therapist on the ladies' side of the Y, it's a different story. Says Barker, "Women know ...

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