May 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 ...
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"Women live longer in almost every country, and the sex difference in lifespan has been recognized since at least the mid-18th century," said Daniel J. Kruger, a research scientist in the U-M School of Public Health and the Institute for Social Research.
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Optimistic women live longer and healthier lives than their pessimistic peers, a new study suggests. ... What makes an optimist ... Researchers also found that optimists (as compared to pessimists) were more likely to be younger (especially in blacks); live in the Western United States; report higher education and income;
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www.livescience.com/health/090810-optimism-health.html
www.livescience.com/health/090810-optimism-health.html
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"Anyone who developed a genetic alteration that caused infertility, i.e., menopause, obtained a survival advantage over females who continued to be fertile and died bearing children," Perls says. The Gender Gap This reasoning, how...
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Why women live longer than men; (Agencies); Updated: 2004-03-29 16:16 ... In this context, the survival of women beyond menopause makes sense if it translates into extra grandchildren. Proving that hypothesis, though, is difficult. But Mirkka Lahdenpera, of the University of Turku, in Finland, and her colleagues,
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Indeed, once you can no longer reproduce you are, evolutionarily speaking, dead anyway. That, at least, is the conventional wisdom. So it has been a bit of a mystery why women, who normally become infertile in their mid-40s with the arrival of the menopause, often live on and on.
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For men, the figure is about six years. It's also thought smoking makes women go through the menopause earlier. ... There's no hard and fast reason why women live longer than men. But women might be born with a more powerful immune system that protects well into old age, suggest researchers at Imperial College, London.
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www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1168115/Men-stronger...
www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1168115/Men-stronger-women-live-longer-So-healthiest-sex.html
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Waist fat can also be a contributory factor in diabetes and heart disease, which is why curvy women are also believed to live longer than their straighter counter parts, research shows. ... Global Warming Scandal Makes Scientific Progress More Difficult, Experts Say...
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www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,310636,00.html
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That's the lesson from a large study of death rates in optimistic vs. pessimistic women, ... That's what makes the new study different. ... it does not actually establish whether optimism can directly cause a longer life. Additional research will have to be done in order to answer that question. But if a sunnier disposition...
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www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1883402,00.html
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