Charmed Ep 14 | “Touched By A Demon” Breakdown and Review
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Mortality Between the Sexes
There are many biological, behavioral and environmental factors that contribute to a woman living longer than men. Most of it is how the two sexes live their lives. Men dying sooner than a woman makes sense on a biological standpoint because 105 males are born for every 100 females, it would assure that there are about the same number of men and women at reproductive ages. Even though the woman shows a longer life expectancy in almost every human society in the last decade of the 20th century, the size of the advantage varied greatly. In America, the average male life expectancy was 73.4 years, and 80.1 years for females; that’s a 6.7-year difference. Other countries the time is between 1 to 12 years. In earlier days men were exposed more to the hazards of the workplace in an industrial context, alcoholism, smoking, and road accidents. These have increased considerably during the 20th century. Other observations indicate that the growing excess male mortality in industrial countries w...
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