World Health Organization says Japan, San Marino top life expectancy league

1. Posted by J Canuck on Fri, May 22, 2009

Citizen: Even in 2009, men in Canada are out on the road more commuting (car crash deaths), men are on average more adventurous (shy diving, other sports-related deaths) and men generally have more physical jobs than women (work-related deaths). All of these things bring the average life span of men down below that of women here and around the world.

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2. Posted by J Canuck on Fri, May 22, 2009

Discovery: "European people live longer than any other people" Try reading tha article again. Japanese women live the longest and Japanese men are not far behind the men of San Marino, therefore Japanese people live longer than the vast majority of Europeans.

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3. Posted by Discovery on Fri, May 22, 2009

European people live longer than any other people, from Eastern Europe. They eat yogurt and vegetable.

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4. Posted by Discovery on Fri, May 22, 2009

European people live longer than any other people, from Eastern Europe. They eat yogurt and vegetable.

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5. Posted by Nosmo_king_eh on Fri, May 22, 2009

Dear WHO..........you have been WRONG so many times before, VERY WRONG in "life and death" issues and you appear to have this ALL WRONG TOO............ Who the hell needs your tainted, uninformed opinion? Everyone is entitled to their opinion......but it has to be an opinion!!!!!! Not some STUPID crap like you consistantly come up with. Thanks for the LAUGH....!!!! DORKS

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6. Posted by Matthew S on Fri, May 22, 2009

Well to start with I'm a Canadian who never finished high school (dropped out after grade 10 to work in my chosen trade). I have taken many IQ test and consistently score between 118 and 130.... Education has little to do with IQ, if you are an intelligent person you will learn things on your own, from books, personal experience...... School is actually a very inefficient form of education and I personally believe it is geared more towards making everyone alike.....It is more like mass brainwashing then anything. They teach us all select bits of information from chosen subjects, this will ultimately control our thinking and outlook on the world. Honestly I have yet to be asked for a high school diploma at any job interview, I can't think of anything I have leaned in school aside from basic math skills that has benefited me in my chosen works. My work by the way is the auto body trade and my specialty is custom work, this has been a life long interest for me and yet whenever I tried to involve it in my school career my teachers shunned it. I was often forbidden from researching cars, writing essays on them or any of the like! If someone has an interest that falls outside the chosen curriculum in school they are out of luck! If you think about it we are all born with some interest that we can't control, an impulse of what we want to do in life, something we are driven too. For me that is cars and i can learn and retain information about cars very easily compared to other subjects. So way did our education system try to drive me away from something that I so easily excel in? This is where our education system sadly lacks, they treat everyone the same and yet we are all so different. Why not have more available subjects that can be chosen at a young age to better meet the interests of the students?

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7. Posted by Citizen on Fri, May 22, 2009

So in a country like Canada, where there isn’t a war, why does society accept the fact that men have a shorter life span? Why doesn't the government spend more money researching this disparity between men and women, and build an action plan to close the gap? The fact that men die 4.7 years earlier than women (78.0 vs. 82.7) is a serious health issue in Canada that receives no attention. Just think of how many life years are lost in Canada alone. Half the population multiplied by 4.7 years. We are talking about almost 100,000,000 life years. This is a far more concerning number which gets brushed off by society, the media, medical research, and special interest groups as "just the way it is". How has society's views been twisted to downplay areas where women's lives are better than men's, but react in horror where men's lives are subjectively deemed better than women's? How many life years are lost to breast cancer? Not even in the same realm. Yet, where do all the research dollars go? That's right, breast cancer research. Let’s focus on giving all citizens equality, which also means an equal lifespan.

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8. Posted by Junkmail S on Fri, May 22, 2009

Dear Linda C, I think you just proved Proudmamma78's point, with your pathetic and irrational diatribe. It's beyond stupid for you to try and blame Canada's poor IQ ranking on immigrants who are usually only allowed to get in if they have university degree or equivalent skill (unless if you're White & from Western Europe, in which case even a high-school degree will get you in). I worked in Canadian Immigration Depts in Ottawa, it's clear that most immigrants that Canada lets in from Asia (primarily, India, China, Korea, Japan and Vietnam) were WAAYYYY more qualified than 'generic' Anglo-Canadians; that's because the Canadian govt gets to decide who gets in based on their qualifications and/or skillset, whereas no such criteria is applied if you're born in Canada [you could be a moron & Canada still has to keep you; ain't the right Linda C? ;-) ]. If anything, the fact that Canada's IQ is below the global average, despite receiving the cream of the crop white-collar immigration from Asia (i.e. high-IQ immigrants), is shameful and something we ought to examine to find out why. Oh and one more thing, the qualifications criteria kinda 'disappear' if the applicant is a white European. Example of 2 applications that came across my screen while I was at Immigration Canada: Candidate #1: Consular Assessment: Applicant is a 26 year old single female, fluent in English, University degree, very personable, good candidate will fit in to Canadian society relatively easily. Result: APPLICATION DENIED. Candidate #2: Consular Assessment: Applicant is a 55 year old women, who only speaks only Norwegian, No French nor English skills, candidate only has High School degree. Result: APPLICATION ACCEPTED. Candidate #1 (rejected) was from India, Candidate #2 (accepted) was from Norway. So if Canada does has a lower than average IQ it isn't because of immigrants from developing countries, but maybe because of longterm unselective immigration from Scandinavia.

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9. Posted by Seigihan on Fri, May 22, 2009

By exhausting a person psychologically, reducing his ability to think, it is easy to brainwash him without him fighting back. This is just basic psychology. They achieve these in many ways: laughing with hidden intention of stopping others laugh by laughing louder and with a hatred undertone, cry out in front of the march on Remembrance Day to act like they are the one whom went to battle, spray drink on you without reason and laugh when you get angry, give you less change when working as cashier, give you wrong drugs as a doctor, give you discriminative treatment as a cop and so on. They group together so it is difficult to attack each one. They go against ethics because they knew they don’t have to take responsibility. Their second milestone is in media manipulation. Media control is to make every person think everyone else is feministic, and to make a nation felt like other nations are feministic so it needs to change. No one dares to attack them when they have the media in control. Feminists interest group makes their idea look like the public idea and make anyone opposing them look bad. Politicians are afraid to lose their political life so they are afraid to solve the underlying problem. Since people knew the media is being controlled but did not do something to stop it, they falls into a 'loser' mentality in which they just accepts everything that is channeled into them telling themselves it wasn't too bad, unable to resist. KIBOU made this document to explain things for you. KIBOU writes a load. To me, wrong way of doing things are wrong. Feminists do things by inducing fear, that is the reason why I will never support them. No discussion needed. Simple. We wouldn't do this if we don't care. http://www.box.net/shared/z7gi1x0v7h http://pickup.mofile.com/5616876597010544

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10. Posted by Jason C on Fri, May 22, 2009

Sj. You rock. Anna can suck my Banana. Let me tell a little secret about what most "newfies" do with all there spare time. We wright joke books about ourselves and sell them to the real morons, and while your laughing at us we'er laughing all the the way to the bank.

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