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Posted: 16 years ago
Generally it has been seen that women live longer then men. One of the reasons for this would be that women dont let the emotions build inside them but by talking about it they reduce the stress level, whereas men just bottle up their emotions and hence invaribly increases stress level which can lead to heart attacks.

Posted: 16 years ago
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Originally posted by sweta01


Generally it has been seen that women live longer then men. One of the reasons for this would be that women dont let the emotions build inside them but by talking about it they reduce the stress level, whereas men just bottle up their emotions and hence invaribly increases stress level which can lead to heart attacks.

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Posted: 16 years ago
Baha! I get to live longer than you all male species πŸ˜† πŸ˜† Okay I'm done making fun but I am a girl and wouldn't complain living longer! I don't know why it is, maybe Gods like us better πŸ˜† πŸ˜† The devis that we are πŸ˜†
Posted: 16 years ago

Anshu, here are some articles which I found:

Why Women Live Longer than Men

A recent UCLA study indicates that women may live longer than men because they deal with stress differently. According to the study, the body, when it is stressed, triggers a hormone called oxytocin that causes the "fight or flight" response in men. But in women, high estrogen levels may dull the hormone's effects and produce a "tend or befriend" response, an urge to cultivate social ties. And this less confrontational response may lower blood pressure, thus reducing the risk of disease.

Why women live longer than men

Research by LJMU's exercise scientists may have an answer to the age old question of why women live longer than men. Their findings show that women's longevity may be linked to the fact that their hearts age differently to men's and do not lose their pumping power as they get older.

David Goldspink, LJMU's Professor of Cell and Molecular Sports Science explains: "The power of the male heart falls by 20-25% between 18 and 70 years of age. In stark contrast, there was no age-related decline in the power of the female heart."

The results are based on the findings of the largest ever study on the effects of ageing on our cardiovascular system. The good news is that men can improve the health of their heart simply by taking more regular exercise. Women too need to take regular exercise to prevent their leg muscles becoming smaller and weaker as they get older.

Why women live longer than men

Stories about women outliving their husbands have abounded for centuries. Reasons for this were put down to lifestyle, war and perhaps the labour-intensive work men tended to do in the past. But now British researchers think they have a physiological explanation – women's hearts are stronger. 

The news isnt all bad for men: keeping active can build up heart strength and prolong their lives. PhotoDisc
The news isn't all bad for men: keeping active can build up heart strength and prolong their lives.
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Sports scientists in the United Kingdom believe they may have an answer to the age-old question of why women live longer than men. No, it is not because men are driven to an early death by nagging, as stereotypical husbands often complain. The answer comes from what the researchers say is the largest study ever undertaken on the effects of ageing on our cardiovascular system.

It has already been shown that, on average, women live longer than men. In fact, women over 60 years old are now the fastest-growing group in today's ageing society. Findings by sports and exercise researchers at Liverpool's John Moores University (LJMU) show that women's longevity may be linked to the way their hearts age – maintaining pumping power as they get older.

David Goldspink, Professor of Cell and Molecular Sports Science at LJMU, says that the power in men's heart falls by 20 to 25% between 18 and 70 years of age. In stark contrast, over the same period there was no age-related decline in the power of the female heart.

"This means that the heart of a healthy 70 year-old women could perform almost as well as a 20 year-old's," Goldspink notes, adding that this dramatic gender difference might explain why women live longer than men.

Since the study began two years ago, Goldspink and a team of scientists at LJMU's Research Unit for Human Development and Ageing have examined over 250 healthy men and women between the ages of 18 and 80 years. Choosing only healthy subjects was critical. The scientists were able to look at the ageing process with less complications brought on by diseases whose incidence tends to increase as we get older. In addition, by studying both men and women at the same time, they could look for either similarities or differences between the two sexes during the ageing process.

Power and performance
The research focused on three key aspects of our cardiovascular system: measuring body composition to establish bone density, muscle mass and the amount and distribution of body fat in each subject; taking blood pressure to assess how fit the people are and how powerful their hearts are at rest and while exercising; and assessing heart performance using ultrasound to give the size of the hearts' chambers, the thickness of the muscular walls and the filling and emptying action. 

"We now have a much clearer holistic picture of changes that take place in the human body throughout our life cycle," comments Goldspink. And the good news is that men can improve the health of their heart simply by taking more regular exercise. In a related study, he found that the hearts of veteran male athletes (50 to 70 years-olds) were as powerful as those of inactive 20 year-old male undergraduates.

According to the scientists, engaging in regular aerobic exercise can, therefore, preserve the power and performance of men's ageing hearts. But they warn that women should not rest on their laurels, they also need to exercise regularly to prevent their leg muscles becoming smaller and weaker as they get older.

On the back of these findings, Professor Goldspink is now calling for a major public campaign in the UK to inform people about how much and what kind of exercise they should undertake to age more healthily. Similar political efforts are taking shape at the EU level, with significant funding set aside in the Union's Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) for life science research into healthy ageing.

One element of FP6's thematic priority one – 'Life sciences, genomics and biotechnology for health' – seeks to combat major disease through genomic approaches to medical knowledge and technologies. To do this, it calls on European scientists to develop better strategies for preventing and managing human disease and for improving healthy living and ageing.

Posted: 16 years ago

Originally posted by mermaid_QT


The power of one X backing the other πŸ˜›
Lesser use of oggling eyes and moving necks πŸ˜‰ and hence more energy saved


last but not the least, no naaaaggggg at home.. πŸ˜†

🀣🀣 so trueπŸ˜†

Posted: 16 years ago

Why Do Women Live Longer Than Men?
Researchers Examine Role of Risky Behavior in Life Expectancy
By Miranda Hitti
WebMD Medical NewsMay 11, 2006 -- Women generally outlive men, and researchers are exploring the reasons why.

Evolution may play a role, researchers note in the journal Human Nature. But other factors also work in women's favor, and it's possible for anyone -- male or female -- to work toward a longer, healthier life.

First, take a look at the latest snapshot of U.S. life expectancy. In 2004, the most recent year for which such statistics are available, life expectancy from birth was 77.9 years. In 2004, life expectancy for U.S. women was 5.2 years longer than men.

Women don't just outlive men in the U.S. In April, researchers in England predicted that 2006 may be the year in which women outlive men all over the world, even in the world's poorest countries.



Vying for Attention πŸ˜‰
Here's the short version of the study, published in Human Nature: Male animals often have to compete for female attention πŸ˜› -- witness the male peacock's showy tail and the male moose's battle-ready antlers; vying against other suitors can be risky. πŸ˜†

The University of Michigan's Daniel Kruger, PhD, and Randolph Nesse, MD, wrote the paper. They argue that men are much more likely than women to engage in risky and sometimes violent behavior, ultimately raising men's death rate. 😊

More men than women die in car accidents, other types of accidents, homicides, and suicides, the researchers note. They add that in the U.S., the gender gap in death rates peaks in young adulthood and is mainly due to behavior.

Daredevil Appeal?
Kruger and Nesse took a big-picture look at how evolution may contribute to male-female death rates.

They don't claim that all men engage in risky behavior to impress women, or that all women look at daredevils and think, "I'd like him to father my children." They also don't dismiss women's health risks.

However, Kruger and Nesse note that men, particularly those experiencing uncertainty or deprivation, "may develop riskier life strategies, leading to higher mortality rates." Of course, many men may not act that way when facing uncertainty or harsh conditions.

The male-female gap in death rates may be a sign of male-male competition in a society, the researchers also suggest.

Safer Childbirth
"Up until very recently in human terms, life expectancy for men was greater than for women," Carol J. Hogue, PhD, MPH, tells WebMD.

Hogue is a professor of maternal and child health and of epidemiology at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health.

"I'm not talking about elderly people and whether the next year they're going to be alive," she explains. "I'm talking about the average number of years lived for a baby born. That's life expectancy at birth." Kruger and Nesse's study tracked death rates, not life expectancy from birth.

Why did women overtake men in life expectancy? "The difference is maternal mortality," Hogue says. Maternal mortality includes women's deaths during or associated with childbirth.

Maternal mortality improved in the developed world in the early 20th century and followed suit in most of the developing world, "although there are still areas in the developing world that have very high rates of maternal mortality," Hogue says.

Risky Behavior
It's "certainly true," Hogue says, that "males are much more at risk of violent death and associated with taking risks." She says "that may be part of the explanation as to why life expectancy at birth is now better for women than men."

"The major killer in early life for women was maternal mortality, and that has been tamed considerably, whereas the major killer for men is violence and accidents, and that has not gone down as dramatically as childbirth deaths have gone down," Hogue says.

Women shouldn't take their longer life expectancy for granted. The 2004 gender gap in U.S. life expectancy was the smallest it's been since 1946. If women continue to adopt unhealthy habits like smoking, the gap may narrow further.

"Also, now that obesity is such a major player in life expectancy, I don't think we know what impact that's going to have," Hogue says. She adds that some scientists have theorized that women may have greater genetic protection against premature death.

Boosting Your Life Expectancy
Men and women can take steps toward a longer, healthier life.

"You can change your life expectancy if you start today exercising, eating right, reducing stress through one or another stress-reduction methods like meditation, avoiding risky behavior, wearing your seatbelt, not cutting people off in traffic," Hogue says.

"In other words, you have your own destiny in your own hands, up to a point," she says.

http://women.webmd.com/guide/20061201/why-women-live-longer

looks like men need to shape up big timeπŸ˜†.....as QT pointed out, we women do save tremendous energy by not on the look out all the timeπŸ˜†  I hope the knights in shining armor fighting for aish's defence take a note of this articleπŸ˜‰πŸ˜†

Edited by Gauri_3 - 16 years ago
Posted: 16 years ago

Originally posted by mermaid_QT


The power of one X backing the other πŸ˜›
Lesser use of oggling eyes and moving necks πŸ˜‰ and hence more energy saved


last but not the least, no naaaaggggg at home.. πŸ˜†

Have you ever thought that this could be the veri de-stressing factor while walking beside nagging wives..its sometimes a treat for the sore eyes who are forced to see only one dimension πŸ˜† sometimes its a hope....πŸ˜†.I am just guessing.. I dont know the reality...

Its like when you watch a beautiful face on TV while being stressed out.. it is so soothing...πŸ˜† and this is by experience...

Edited by qwertyesque - 16 years ago
Posted: 16 years ago
No wonder people in West (MJ) wanted gender change πŸ˜†
Posted: 16 years ago
Originally posted by raj5000


Before you lay this  πŸ€’ expression on me.

πŸ˜†.πŸ˜†

Back to topic:

Have observed an natural phenonmenon that generally women live more then male spouses.

Myth says its a Myth!

Do you agree?

No!!!!!!!!!!!In India from several centuries Husband is of more age than wife.So husband dies early than wife! Earlier the age gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap was soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo large that wife used to be of the husband's first wife's daughter's age! So naturally this wife will die after looooooooooooooooooong time!

Cheers,

Myth

Posted: 16 years ago
Originally posted by mythili_Kiran


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