Originally written by Jacek K. on October 16, 2009 2:56 PM The paradox, of course, is that the older-woman relationship makes perfect sense when it comes to life expectancy, with women outliving men by an average of five years. ...

That's true enough, but if you men want to live longer, then marry a highly educated woman.

"In a study, researchers found that a woman's education was a stronger factor in her husband's risk of dying over the next decade or so than the man's own level of education.

A husband's social class based on his occupation had a greater influence on a woman's survival than her own occupational class, Drs. Robert Erikson and Jenny Torssander of the Swedish Institute for Social Research in Stockholm found.

… Men who hadn't reached high school were 1.1 times more likely to die during follow-up than men who'd finished college. … men living with a woman without any high school education were 1.25 times more likely to die than men living with a college graduate.

…"women traditionally take more responsibility for the home than men do, and, as a consequence, women's education might be more important for the family's lifestyle -- for example, in terms of food habits -- than men's education."

Erikson added: "We can assume that more highly educated women have better possibilities to find the important health messages that are around...There are lots of health messages in the media and I think some of them are important and some are just misleading."

SOURCE: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, online October 6, 2009.

http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE59555420091006?feedType=RSS&feedName=healthNews  via Berlingske Tidende.

"Men of the world, you have no idea. Leave it to the women. Forget the whole pain-threshold debate. We have nothing. Women win, men don't. The end. (I'm glad that's over!)" — Dr Andrew Rochford

http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-au&brand=ninemsn&playlist=videoByUuids:uuids:e094b279-dcfa-4af8-bea8-f05ff82d0bf0&showPlaylist=true&from=articleinline&fg=healthportal^whatsgoodforyou^798263

http://health.ninemsn.com.au/whatsgoodforyou/factsheets/798263/women-have-a-higher-pain-threshold-than-men

Science now tells us that men and women experience pain differently. But can men handle what is apparently one of the most agonising of human experiences?

Our host and father of three, Dr Andrew Rochford, will undergo a simulated labour in order to gain a better understanding of the childbirth process and explore the range of pain relief techniques currently available for women in labour.

Ready for the transition to the next life? Walmart at the ready...

Walmarts dyreste model, "Sienna Bronze", til knap 15.000 kr. Foto: Wal-Mart onlinekatalog.

Walmart's most expensive model Sienna Bronze at approx. $2,900.00.

http://www.walmart.com/search/search-ng.do?search_query=casket&search_constraint=0&tc=0&ic=48_0&ref=+125874.425084&tab_value=15_All

via Politiken: http://epn.dk/brancher/detail/article1869695.ece?partner=pol

Originally written by Jacek K. on October 16, 2009 2:56 PM But with men’s fertility far outlasting women’s, biology makes the case for the older-man scenario, and recent research has even suggested that older men having children with younger women is a key to the survival of the human species. ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8331136.stm (via Harper's Weekly Review)

Hundreds of people have attended a wedding in central Somalia between a man who says he is 112 years old, and his teenage wife.

Ahmed Muhamed Dore - who already has 13 children by five wives - said he would like to have more with his new wife, Safia Abdulleh, who is 17 years old.

There is enough people in the world and children to survive, absolutely unnecessary to worry about it by 117 year old men.   

It was a chance conversation on March 23 1985 ("in the afternoon, as I recall") that first started Josh Silver on his quest to make the world's poor see. A professor of physics at Oxford University, Silver was idly discussing optical lenses with a colleague, wondering whether they might be adjusted without the need for expensive specialist equipment, when the lightbulb of inspiration first flickered above his head.

What if it were possible, he thought, to make a pair of glasses which, instead of requiring an optician, could be "tuned" by the wearer to correct his or her own vision? Might it be possible to bring affordable spectacles to millions who would never otherwise have them?

More than two decades after posing that question, Silver now feels he has the answer. The British inventor has embarked on a quest that is breathtakingly ambitious, but which he insists is achievable - to offer glasses to a billion of the world's poorest people by 2020.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/dec/22/diy-adjustable-glasses-josh-silver