Comments on: Why Men Die Sooner

New Book Called "Why Men Die First" Explains How Men Can Close The Longevity Gap

[middleman8]

The answer is;

Marriages should all be only on a 20 - 25 year contract, with options for renewal.
This would take a lot of pressure off marriages and an end could be in sight when needed.

[ki8911]

To w17bzh,
I''ve been working since I was 17. I worked during my 3 pregancies, right up to the day I delivered. I don''t expect my husband to be the sole supporter because that is not realistic in this world. Right now in my current job, I don''t have health insurance, but my husband does. I encourage him to go to the doctor because he has children that adores him and I love him too. I want him to be around for a long time, and not just as a paycheck.
Dude,sounds like you are one bitter person. I hope someday your life will improve. But not with that kind of attitude.

[wl7bzh]

If you got insurance take advantage of it. Your kids want you to be around for a long time too because they love you.

Posted by ki8911 at 11:26 AM : Sep 06, 2008

Yea, and if Bubba don''t have insurance and kicks off, then you''re gonna have to get off your cellulite laden fat bottom and get job. And you thought you didn''t need an education because some man was going to take care of you?

[ki8911]

Hey guys, we women just want you to go to the doctor to make sure you are healthy. You take your truck to the mechanic to make sure it''s running ok. Why not do the same for your own machine, your body, take care of it so you can enjoy life. If you got insurance take advantage of it. Your kids want you to be around for a long time too because they love you.

[wl7bzh]

Face it, American medicine is a business for those who can afford it. Health in America is a commodity to be bought and sold. Government functionaries, insurance companies, lobbyists and doctors all keep it that way. And that''''s the way it will probably stay for the most part.

Every other modern industrialized nation treats health care as a right, and it''''s nation''''s health as a collective asset to be preserved for the common good.

Posted by gce65 at 09:17 PM : Sep 05, 2008
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Naw, with ministers switching from preaching morality to preaching prosperity, doctors now train in specialty medicine rather than preventive medicine.

Both ministers and doctors have found that there is no profit in promoting a healthy lifestyle.

For both ministers and doctors, it is easier to get a man''s wallet when his life suxx or he is getting to the end of that life.

Until then both doctors and ministers have a heck of a time making a living promoting a "moral or healthy lifestyle".

Essentially religion and medicine have made end of life health issues a delayed sin tax. Party now, pay later.

[longtree-2009]

To die or not to die. Nobody gets out of this life alive. Something or someone will be the cause of our death, sooner or later. Live your life as best you can, try not to hurt anyone and strive for peace and tranquility for yourself. All living creatures must die and do die.

[deacon20081]

There are happy marriages, you know. I''''''''ve been in one for 16 years. Posted by bragova

Agreed my marriage has lasted now 24+ years. I was married as a kid once,the first was before I turned 20 and was doomed from the start.
Never imagined I would ever remarry until an old fellow I met told me not to sell myself short. Glad I listened.....So Are My Kids!

[deacon20081]

MY grand father lived to 99 years...10 years younger was my grand mother who lived to 99 years.
So much for mothers side. On the opposite side my grand father died young from an accident playing softball, grand mother lived well into her 80''s

I guess I am rolling the dice...

[ajaxtheleast]

These "doctors" seem sure that death
is a bad thing.

Death is the only "time traveler"

Arrogance is to think that we in some form
never happened before and will never
happen again.

The distance between one spark of
conscientiousness and the next as far as
experiencing the passage of time is concerened
doesn''t exist.

You"re here, you''re gone, you''re in
your next spark of conscientiousness
on some other life-supporting body of compacted
stardust as it''s equivilent to our cockroach.

And,, knowing nothing of what went before
are quite involved with the trials
and tribulations of cockroach society.

Then again, "you", The spark of
conscientiousness you, may be what we in the
here and now consider "lucky" and "you" may
next pop up somewhere as totally superior to
what "you", your miserable spark of
conscientiousness self, is now worrying about
something that we''ve decided to call death.

[haoli25]

More men die from foolishly answering the questions, ''Does this make me look fat?'' and ''You DO like my family, right?'', than from lack of periods.

[ajaxtheleast]

Men past 60 commit more suicides

because they are the ones who have

to look at women past 60.

[alphaa10-2009]

PS-- Don Fernandez should be commended for his effort on a difficult topic. However, his treatment needs much more breadth, and not focused primarily on the viewpoint of Legato.

To use Legato is the principal foundation and framework of this piece was a critical mistake. Fernandez may be an excellent reviewer of books, but the book-- not his review-- is the content at issue.

Check out the work of Drs. Jay Rowen and/or Julian Whitaker. Rowen is a Johns Hopkins medical grad, and Whitaker is a graduate of Emory University School of Medicine. Both agree on menstruation is the most likely-- however unlikely-- "fountain of youth" for females.

[alphaa10-2009]

CBS reports, "Male mortality is shorter in part, Legato says, because males are more fragile and inherently vulnerable than females from birth."
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Legato''s explanation is somewhat labored, to say the least. It reintroduces a dated and somewhat murky account of genetic factors supposedly responsible for difference between male and female lifespans.

While genetic research contributes to solving the puzzle, the question of lifespan difference hasn''t a pat answer from genetics, itself. In contrast, the relatively shorter male lifespan is easily explained by a factor intrinsic to female biology-- the "curse".

Menstruation is a life-long factor for women until menopause, and has a profound effect on the health and longevity of various body subsystems. The monthly renewal of erythrocytes is a virtual factory for producing a constant supply of young, viable and healthy red blood cells.

Specifically, the youthful red blood cells are very flexible, and move easily through the capillaries, assuring maximum nutrition in even the most remote and restricted regions of the body. Young red blood cells harvest and retain more oxygen in their hemoglobin than old, tired cells can.
The difference is dramatic-- we might say, it is a matter of life and death beyond age 65. Deprived of their monthlies, women rapidly fall into the syndrome common to aging males. For postponing this damage, all hail to "The Bloody Curse"!

[gce65]

On a more serious note to WebMD:
This advice is all fine and dandy for those people who have affordably health care, or health care at all, but you doctors never seem to want to start a conversation about health from the fact that about 40 million Americans don''t have health insurance at all. And then add to that the number who are underinsured and, while they pay a premium to an insurance company each month, they can''t actually afford to see a doctor because it will cost too much.

Face it, American medicine is a business for those who can afford it. Health in America is a commodity to be bought and sold. Government functionaries, insurance companies, lobbyists and doctors all keep it that way. And that''s the way it will probably stay for the most part.

Every other modern industrialized nation treats health care as a right, and it''s nation''s health as a collective asset to be preserved for the common good.

[haoli25]

There are happy marriages, you know. I''''ve been in one for 16 years. Posted by bragova



Looking over your shoulder, is she?

[gce65]

Well, maybe in the interest of population balance and equality in longevity more men should start putting women out of their (men''s) misery!
(Of course for the sake of blah, blah, blah, I should say that''s meant only in jest. I should say that...)

[gce65]

Hows that joke go? Ive been married twice and they''''re both dead. My first wife died from poisoness eating mushrooms, the second one died of a concusion, she wouldn''''t eat the mushrooms.

Posted by sillywilly4 at 03:52 PM : Sep 05, 2008
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Here''s another old Steve Martin joke:
I was married once, but my wife died. I don''t know, I still kinda blame myself for it. We were at a party one night and there was some drinking...and we started arguing. She wanted to go home and I didn''t...so I shot her.

[gce65]

If guys are so unhappy with women, why be around them? Every heard of hook.ers? You don''''t have to take them home or hear their b.itchin''!

Posted by mandylou4u at 04:02 PM : Sep 05, 2008
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All things considered, I think hookers are a much more honest way to go about getting ***. Less expensive in the long run and better at what they do as well.

[gce65]

There are a lot of angry comments here from men who feel their wives are killing or at least abusing them... There are happy marriages, you know. I''ve been in one for 16 years.

Posted by bragova at 06:05 PM : Sep 05, 2008
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You didn''t say whether you are male or female, but give it time to go bad. Chances are it will.

[haoli25]

and haoli25...that was funny!! Posted by sbbm


I owe it all to years of experience of moving fast and learning to keep my MALE opinions to myself!!! lol