Is Being Male Hazardous to Your Health?

Submitted by Michael on Fri, 2010-03-26 13:13

Article here. Excerpt:

'Ask any man and he's sure to say that the male sex is the stronger one. It's easy to see why: Men are bigger than women, so we can lift more, run faster, and jump higher.

But ask doctors of either gender, and they're likely to say that women are actually stronger, at least where health is concerned.

How much stronger and why? What can men do to become healthier and keep up with women? The answer isn't very complex. Men need to be more like women. That means understanding our bodies, taking better care of ourselves, and getting the medical care we need.
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In the U.S. and around the world, women live longer than men. The average American woman has a life expectancy of 80.4 years while American men lag 5.2 years behind at 75.2 years. At every age, starting at conception, males have a higher death rate than females.'

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manonthestreet

I guess how you live will on average effect your life span. No doubt I could have drunk myself to death by now if I had been so inclined. That said it could also be that men and women not being biologically identical might indeed have different life spans. I don't take it as a given that all life expectacies for all groups are the same. Nature just might not be that ever handed.

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Submitted by trotter on Sat, 2010-03-27 08:47

There is very little biological difference between men and women when it comes to lifespan. Much less than a year. Not nearly enough to account for the difference in average lifespan.

Most of the reason men die younger is due to 1) men having to work more dangerous jobs, 2) men having to work more stressful jobs, 3) men having more stress, more suicides, more hardship overall than women due to social programs that only benefit women, due to society's bias against men, due to feminist influences, 4) men not having as strong an emphasis on healthcare because unlike women they do not have vaginas which need regular gynecological examinations and they do not receive as much funding for healthcare as women, 5) men are expected to "take it like a man" and not worry about their health, to be strong.

Men's Rights with Jay Hammers

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Submitted by jayhammers on Sun, 2010-03-28 03:27