Why men often die earlier than women

Demographic data by World Health Organization displays year by year a trend women from around the world tend to have a lower mortality rate when compared with men. However recent reports indicate that life expectancy on African continent has greatly improved by about 40%, people here live shorter than others in the world. As, on average, African women live about 58 years, what is 2 years longer than their male counterparts. Compare well with other continents, one can see that men in Australia expect to live for 78.9 years, while woman live about 81 years; European men come second with 77 years (woman – 83 years), men from Asia and North America follows behind with 75 years (woman – 87 and 78 years).  What are the reasons of this tendency?

1. Poor eating habits
It is a well-known fact that women feed better than men; they are more likely to have three square meals compared to their male counterparts who often skip meals.

Advice to men: try to have main meals at the right time no less than 3 times per day as this habit is able to add a few more years to your life span.

2. Wrong types of foods
Men much more often than women tend to choose wrong types of foods like soda, potato chips, high-fat meat, fast food or junk food products.

Advice to men: choose healthy home-made meals as often as possible, consume a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables.
3. Pent up emotions
Most of men usually hide their true feelings and emotions to appear to be more masculine and less feminine; finally, they are regularly over-stressed as well as overfilled with negative emotions and troubles, which can increase the risk of many serious conditions like heart diseases, strokes, etc.

Advice to men:  instead of keeping emotions deep inside share them with your spouse or close-friend.
4. Extra-marital affairs
A good proportion of men love an extra mistress here and there, which comes at great cost, not to mention financial, physical, psychological and social among others. A man with one wife is usually less mixed up compared to those with more than one.
Advice to men: avoid extra-marital affairs. It eliminates unnecessary emotions that arise from such relationships.
G 5. Laziness
This applies to men who end up lazing about while their wives take on household chores. Women sharpen their skills and are more physically active and alert in responding to family needs, making them fit. G
Advice to men: put the stereotypes away, it doesn’t make you less of a man to assist your wife from time to time in the house. It is your house after all