On
average men die earlier than women, yet they have to wait longer for their state pensions.
They should thank their lucky stars that they aren't in Russia, where
the average man dies at age 55, often after a lifetime of alcoholism.»
Not exact matches
But to the young widow with children to raise alone, to the
man dying an agonizing and untimely death from cancer, to the person full of life and hope who is incapacitated by multiple sclerosis, or to the child who has to start his or her life with an uncorrectable birth defect, the
average isn't what matters.
The findings add to past research suggesting gay
men haven't
died out, because female relatives of gay
men tend to have more children on
average than other females.
Our current contract — «until death» — might have worked when people didn't live all that long (according to the American sociologist and author Stephanie Coontz, the
average marriage in colonial times lasted under 12 years); or when many women
died in childbirth, freeing
men to marry multiple times (which they did); and when
men of means needed women to cook, clean and caretake, and women needed
men for financial security.
Speaking to an audience in east London, the health secretary said a
man born in Manchester would on
average die nine years sooner than a
man in Kensington and Chelsea.
Ask the
average man on the street who Vince Cable is, and they'll either tell you he was a 70s pop star with long side burns who
died of a heart attack in 2005, or that he's a burly character from Eastenders.
Babies
died of cholera, TB was rife and
average life expectancy was no more than 44 years for women and 42 years for
men.
The study, which followed 3,681 healthy European
men and women age 60 or younger for about eight years, also found that above -
average sodium intake did not appear to up the risk of developing high blood pressure (hypertension) or
dying of a heart attack or stroke.
Those who ate the most fiber (29.4 grams per day for
men and 25.8 grams per day for women) were 22 percent less likely to have
died than those who ate the least amount of fiber an
average of nine years later.
They did two detailed physical exams just over six years apart (on
average), then followed the
men for another 11 years to see which ones
died, and why.
That's a very strong $ 7,527 per - screen
average for «Wanted
Man,» which has drawn terrific reviews, particularly for its star Hoffman, who
died of a drug overdose in February.
The film's closest antecedent is A Million Ways to
Die in the West, in which an
average man in a bad romance rises above mediocrity, in order to prove how awesome he was all along.
BESIDES SHOWERING RICHES ON THE
AVERAGE man in the Street and fueling perhaps the most satisfying economic expansion in history - a boom without tears - this greatest of all bull markets has completely reformulated truisms that investors have lived - and sometimes
died - by, ever since the Buttonwood Tree was a spindly sapling.
As an analogy, while it is impossible to predict the age at which any particular
man will
die, we can say with high confidence that the
average age of death for
men in industrialized countries is about 75.
During follow - up of about 27 years on
average, 640 of the participants (358
men)
died from heart disease and another 293 (122
men)
died from stroke.
The
average 60 - year old
man today has at least a 50 % chance of needing some form of long - term care before he
dies, and the odds are even higher for women.