Thursday, April 23, 2009


Reading on interet I found a curious question: Why do women live longer than men? As answer I read that women generally live about six years longer than men; that boys are the weaker sex at birth wich means that more died in infancy; women don’t have as much heart disease as men; in terms of lifestyle, men smoke more than women and in this way more die of smoking-related disease; they, in behavior, drink more and are more agressive particularly when driving cars, so they are more likely to die in accidents. Also, they have generally more dangerous occupations such as a building work. Hitorically, women died in childbirth and men in wars ;hence, nuns and philosophers often lived to great ages. Now Childbearing is less risky and are fewer wars. The country with the highest expectancy life is Japan, there the average for men is 76 and for women 82. So we can see that cultural conditions influence how longer or short could be our life without we know it!!!....

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