Why us, God? Why?
With 95% of all people over 110 being female, as well as women being expected to live longer than men in virtually every country on earth, you’d be forgiven for thinking that women have been taking some kind of survival class that men haven’t been told about.
The reality is much simpler: a new study has found that women live longer than men because they treat their bodies better.
Research led by the University of Southern California Leonard Davis School of Gerontology has shown that men are more likely to end up with heart disease, or diseases that result from smoking.
Smoking alone accounts for 30% of the difference in female and male mortality rates since 1890, with cardiovascular disease also responsible for a whopping percentage of the difference.
This argument is well supported. Irish Heart say that between 1989 and 1998, death from diseases of the circulatory system were 61% higher for men than women.
The research showed that as people learned more about how to take care of their bodies in 19th and 20th centuries through diet control and preventing infections, women reaped the health benefits to a greater degree than men.
One of the researchers, Professor Caleb Finch said that “further study could include analysis of diet and exercise activity differences between countries, deeper examination of genetics and biological vulnerability between sexes at the cell level”…
But we’re still pretty suspicious about those secret survival classes.
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