Men living longer - could catch up to women by 2030 - Polidicks

[B]The gap between male and female life expectancy is closing and men could catch up by 2030, according to an adviser for the Office for National Statistics. [/B]Prof Les Mayhew said the difference between the sexes peaked at nearly six years in the 1970s. Life expectancy is going up all round, but the rates for men are increasing faster. [B] Plummeting smoking rates in men are thought to explain a lot of the change. [/B]Prof Mayhew, a professor of statistics at Cass Business School, analysed life expectancy data in England and Wales. He was working out how long 30-year-olds could expect to live. His findings show men languishing far behind for decades, but now starting to get closer to women. If current trends continue, Prof Mayhew predicts, [B]both sexes could, on average, be living to the age of 87 in 2030[/B]. [IMG]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/59815000/jpg/_59815216_male_life_expectancy_464.jpg[/IMG] He said: "What's interesting at the moment is that in the last 20 years or so, male life expectancy at 30 has jumped by about six years and if it jumps by the same amount in the next 20 years it will converge with female life expectancy." The reason could be down to men living a healthier lifestyle. "One of the main reasons, I think, is the trend in the prevalence of smoking. [B] Smoking took off after 1920 in the male population and at its high about 80% of males smoked.[/B] "This was reflected in more divergence in the life expectancy, so by the time you get to about 1970 it was at its peak - the difference in life expectancy was about 5.7 years." Other factors are thought to be [B]safer, more office-based, jobs[/B]. Millions of men used to work in hazardous occupations such as coal mining. Healthcare has meant more men live longer as well. [B]People with heart disease, which is more common in men, can expect to live much longer than they did a few decades ago.[/B] By contrast, women started smoking later than men. [B]Rates of lung cancer are still increasing in women, but are falling fast in men.[/B] [B]A boy and a girl born on the same day will still not have the same life expectancies, as the study looked only at people who had already reached 30. Boys are more likely to die in their first year of life and are more likely to take up dangerous sports or be involved in fatal accidents.[/B] Prof David Leon, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said: "In virtually all countries in the world, women do have a slight advantage." However, he said the gap was definitely closing in some countries. Countries with lower levels of life expectancy, such as in sub-Saharan Africa, showed very little difference between the genders. This was due to the prevalence of infectious diseases which "are not picky about men and women", he said. [B]In countries that had defeated most infectious diseases, such as in Eastern Europe, "there is a much bigger difference, mostly dominated by lifestyle factors".[/B] At one point in the 1990s, the gap between life expectancies in Russia reached 13 years. Prof Leon said it was an "absolutely massive" difference in a "very gendered society". In his third class of countries, such as the UK, the gap in life expectancies is starting to narrow. He said: "[B]Men are getting a bit better behaved and women are adopting male life expectancies.[/B]" [URL]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17811732[/URL]

take that women

This is great, lots of good news showing up right now.

Assuming the economic collapse around that time doesn't shorten the average life span significantly.

[QUOTE=Jetblack357;35685846]This is great, lots of good news showing up right now.[/QUOTE] Yeah celebrate the slow down of Women's life expectancy increases why don't you you sexist bastard

[QUOTE=bIgFaTwOrM12;35685923]Assuming the economic collapse around that time doesn't shorten the average life span significantly.[/QUOTE] Christ will return before that though so there's no need to worry.

Old people sex everywhere.

You know, I like to think that wrinkles, weakness and insanity are natures way of telling us we weren't supposed to live that long.

[QUOTE=dass;35686837]Old people sex everywhere.[/QUOTE] Saying that like it's not going on already...

[QUOTE=Ericson666;35687578]You know, I like to think that wrinkles, weakness and insanity are natures way of telling us we weren't supposed to live that long.[/QUOTE] but as animals we are part of nature.

[QUOTE=Ericson666;35687578]You know, I like to think that wrinkles, weakness and insanity are natures way of telling us we weren't supposed to live that long.[/QUOTE]Seeing as there is a supposed gene or something that makes us age, you're right. Though we're researching how to stop that gene.

So does this mean the people which are born 2030? or those who are still living in 2030?

[QUOTE=Ericson666;35687578]You know, I like to think that wrinkles, weakness and insanity are natures way of telling us we weren't supposed to live that long.[/QUOTE] We're also not supposed to walk upright. Your point?

[QUOTE=Impact1986;35687723]So does this mean the people which are born 2030? or those who are still living in 2030?[/QUOTE] People who are 30 in 2030

I wonder if this is related to the success rate of marriage? Men not having to have a wife or girl friend nag them all day.

[QUOTE=dass;35686837]Old people sex everywhere.[/QUOTE] "Oh god I have to live with my wife EVEN LONGER"

[QUOTE=Ericson666;35687578]You know, I like to think that wrinkles, weakness and insanity are natures way of telling us we weren't supposed to live that long.[/QUOTE] And technology is our way of telling nature to fuck off

[QUOTE=Vasili;35685814]take that women[/QUOTE] I don't find it so funny, what if we outlive women and they die out, we gonna be left to pluck each other butts for the rest of the time :v:

[QUOTE=Scar;35687730]We're also not supposed to walk upright. Your point?[/QUOTE] Yes we are? Of all the things we are most not supposed to do, you chose what we most obviously are supposed to do. Humans and human ancestors have been bipedal for 4 million years. Our skeletons are built for bidepalism.

[QUOTE=Ericson666;35687578]You know, I like to think that wrinkles, weakness and insanity are natures way of telling us we weren't supposed to live that long.[/QUOTE] No, it's just our body decaying like a machine rusts, we just can't fix our body like we can fix a machine, yet. There's lots of old people that aren't weak or insane because they knew how to take care of their bodies.

This article (or the researcher) doesn't even account for exponential growth of technology or an on average increasing life expectancy. I'm sick of seeing this shit [editline]23rd April 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Ericson666;35687578]You know, I like to think that wrinkles, weakness and insanity are natures way of telling us we weren't supposed to live that long.[/QUOTE] Nature doesn't tell us anything. Do you know why we get wrinkly, weak, and insane? Our cells copy incorrectly because of DNA misreplication and shortening of Telomeres over time. We never evolved to be immortal because we never had a chance to. We always died by predators before we could get to that age, except relatively, very recently. All three of those things can and are being cured, with insanity and brain disease the only one we don't fully comprehend. Wrinkles? Loss of collagen, understood, can be repaired, just not yet in large quantities at cheap prices. Weakness, like I said, cells weakening and mis-replication over time due to damaged DNA over time. We do understand certain aspects to brain disease, but as of yet, it's the only one we can't cure in theory.

[QUOTE=Ericson666;35687578]You know, I like to think that wrinkles, weakness and insanity are natures way of telling us we weren't supposed to live that long.[/QUOTE] Humans weren't intelligently designed - they're not 'supposed' to do anything.

[QUOTE=Ericson666;35687578]You know, I like to think that wrinkles, weakness and insanity are natures way of telling us we weren't supposed to live that long.[/QUOTE] people used to look old and frail by 50 years old, now you can even see healthy looking 70 year olds out there

[QUOTE=Levithan;35687627]Saying that like it's not going on already...[/QUOTE] Even more then.

[QUOTE=Jo The Shmo;35691969]people used to look old and frail by 50 years old, now you can even see healthy looking 70 year olds out there[/QUOTE] My grandma is 82 and looks like shes barely pushing 65

Does this that, on average, in 2030 people will be dying at the age of 87, or that the people born in 2030 will, on average, live to 87?

imo the only reason this is happening is because men are becoming total pussies and avoiding physical / military work that could get them killed [editline]23rd April 2012[/editline] sue me brethren

[QUOTE=Mon;35692400]imo the only reason this is happening is because men are becoming total pussies and avoiding physical / military work that could get them killed [editline]23rd April 2012[/editline] sue me brethren[/QUOTE] Or, y'know, advances in medicine and healthcare.

[QUOTE=Electrocuter;35688907]There's lots of old people that aren't weak or insane because they knew how to take care of their bodies.[/QUOTE] Taking care of your body only changes a few things, what it comes down to when your older is your genetics. My grandfather took really good care of his body, and now he thinks he's back in the Hitler Youth in Berlin.

[QUOTE=Mon;35692400]imo the only reason this is happening is because men are becoming total pussies and avoiding physical / military work that could get them killed [editline]23rd April 2012[/editline] sue me brethren[/QUOTE] if it were possible to sue people for having idiotic opinions I would