Taking initiative when it comes to your health and looking after yourself is a form of logic which many men lack.
It has been my experience, however, that women are a lot more susceptible toward ruining their health for emotional reasons. As someone who's rolled in the nutrition circles for years I can't tell you how many poor women I've seen completely ruin their health on something like a vegan diet but be totally delusional about what they were doing to themselves because of touchy feely stuff like "saving the sweet animals". Some do wake up though, alhamdulillah. Whether it's sociological or biological, women are much more in touch with their emotions than men and can be much more easily manipulated by movements like veganism and all this new age spiritual woo woo and ruin their physical and mental health as a result. This particular woman, who is a radical feminist as well, wrote an entire book about how much she effed over her health for 2 decades due to veganism and how she basically got emotionally appealed into it.