Are boys - the fragile ones ?

- boys the weaker ones -

A research of the University of Tel Aviv (Israel) has demystified the idea that women are the fragile ones; the study proved that male babies have a weaker immunological system after monitoring about 66 thousand births. The study concluded that boys have much higher risks of diseases and they are far more vulnerable to several ailments after birth than girls are.

According to their analysis the boys can still suffer an overgrowth inside their mother’s womb which could result into a premature birth.

This fragility is said to be due to the lack of estrogen which is the female hormone that protects the baby girls from the harm of the surrounding environment.

Even though the boys birth rates are higher in accordance to CDC( National Center for Health Statistics) statistic’s than the girls birth rate, all the environmental dangers encountered before and after their birth – and even in an older age the effects of the testosterone levels can unfortunately cause many aggravations, according to researches. So, even if the boys rate are higher worldwide and specifically in the United States, the worry still remains on the boys’ death rate which is higher than girls.

We all knew that females usually lived more than men, and now studies show the reasons of this life factor.

It’s pretty interesting the findings of these statistics – yet in my own humble opinion, there are many women in modern times suffering from heart diseases and from many ailments that they didn’t suffer as much before.

It’s understood that as infants they might be better protected and even in adult life as matter of their immunological system. But, the choices that one makes in life as an individual later in life may make a huge difference.

Men used to be the ones that primarily smoked and abused from overdrinking and got themselves into accidents and fights – they still do so and supposedly because of their search for adventure resulted from testosterone levels…

Though, inherently men seem more vulnerable preys to the harms of the environment as shown in these researches; Women have become a lot more vulnerable in recent times as they are active participants in dangerous professions and are taking all the bad habits such as smoking and drinking which by the way has been proven to be much more harmful to women than men! So, I don’t see this whole thing as black or white, but I see the gray line between, in other words, I always see the middle ground, and I won’t say that men are the fragile sex – maybe in the maternity cribs the baby boys are the weaker ones…

Ps: clicking the title will redirect you to the Statistic's site. And there are other information about the issue below and it’s pretty interesting findings…




http://www.sixwise.com/newsletters/05/06/22/why-are-more-boys-than-girls-being-born.htm

http://www.jornalalef.com.br


http://www.fact.on.ca/news/news0303/nt030316.htm

http://www.enotalone.com/article/19491.html