The average lifespan for a person who is born and raised in the United States today is 75 ? 80 years. The average lifespan for someone in the UK is also 75 ? 80. A Canadian is expected to live 80 ? 85 years, as is an Italian or a Spaniard.
And in each of those developed countries, a man's life is at least five years shorter than a woman's.
With all the strides made in the last 30 years toward the prevention and treatment of heart disease, cancer, stroke, high blood pressure and other life threatening illness, women still outlive men by a clear margin. Why is that? What do you think are the top three differences between men's health and women's that make such a statistic possible?
If you said the stress of earning a living day in and day out, you are a little behind the times. Women have been flooding the job force since the 1960s, and with every passing decade, they have been entering more and more traditionally "Male Only" fields such as firefighting and police work. At the same time they have been climbing the ranks within the corporate world ? earning bigger paychecks, working longer hours and accumulating the same stress and anxiety, as well. Yet women still outlive men.
If you said, health conditions that only affect men such as prostate cancer and low testosterone were the cause, you would be closer. Lowered testosterone levels can lead to osteoporosis and other health related complications, but few are truly life threatening. Prostate cancer, on the other hand, is one of the top killers among men in the United States. Only lung cancer accounts for more deaths. According to the American Cancer Society, about 220,900 were diagnosed in 2003, and about 28,900 died from it.
But the real reason men do not live as long has less to do with any one disease ? and more to do with how men respond to their own disease and illness. Men are much less likely than women to seek treatment for illness. They drink more and smoke more than women, and visit the doctor less. This gives diseases such as lung cancer and prostate cancer ? the number one and number two killers among adult males ? a better chance of becoming terminal.
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
As the old saying goes, "if you knew then what you know now. . . ." Now that you know the biggest health problem men face is themselves, it is time to take charge of your own health. If you are a man reading this article, make an appointment with your physician today to get a complete check up. If you are woman who cares about the men in your life, print this article out and hand each of them a copy.
The rest is up to the men.
you get started, you cannot stop. You are hooked and that is not very good for you. Most people start at an early age in life, they are curious or they want to be cool. The biggest problem is most people lack education that helps them to see how smoking causes them to age faster. The problems smoking can cause: Smoking can cause many problems when it comes to your health not to think about the expense. Smoking can cause cancer, heart disease, and strokes, increase cholesterol and so on. Your heart is affected, since smoking causes your blood vessels to build up with cholesterol and fat. The results leads to harden of the arteries. Harden arteries mean that the blood flow will not pump fast enough to support the heart's natural requirements. This starts blood clotting, broken blood vessels etc. It can also cause angina which will make you think that your having a heart attack but your aren't its just not getting enough blood to the heart to make it pump right. Then it can cause you to have a heart attack, since smoking is a blockage so that there is no blood going to the heart.
Smoking can cause strokes or bronchiolitis. This disease is contagious, which most people do not realize it. The viral infection affects the airway, which affects breathing. The common cause of this contagious disease is smoking or second hand smoke. Smoking promotes bad breath, stained teeth, smelly furniture and clothes. You also get common colds and flu more often. You will start to cough and then you won't be able to breath they even may put you on oxygen. In addition, smoking is so expensive now days. It is not worth it you will end up regretting it in end. On top of this, you get addicted to the nicotine once you are hooked your hooked.
Bronchiolitis is a common viral infection, which affects the respiratory syncytial. The condition causes inflammation. Once the inflammation accumulates the airway is blocked, since the nicotine consumptions and infections causes the airway to narrow, which the flow of air is obstructed. Why is nicotine addictive? You get addicted to the nicotine because of all the chemical put into the tobacco. It's not so much as the nicotine that makes you sick it's the chemicals that they put in the tobacco, that cause you to get the disease like lung cancer and heart disease. In addition, what ever you get from smoking. Nicotine or cigarettes have several chemicals incorporated into it to causes addictions, and finally death. How can I quite smoking? Once you are hooked, it is going to be hard to quite. You have to decide that you're going to quite regardless of what it causes, such as weight gain or being on edge.
You have to pull up the will power to do this and stick to it. You can say I will have one now and no more, yet it don't work that way. You have to find the way that best fits your needs and build the will power. You may want to consult with your doctor who can offer you helpful suggestions on stop smoking.