“Women live longer than men because they often cry,” said Wan
Chengkui, a senior health expert in China. He gave a lecture last
Sunday to residents in Dongguan, Guangdong Province, teaching them
how to live a healthy life and prevent cancers by using simple
examples in our daily life, Guangzhou Daily reported.
In his lecture, Professor Wan said that generally speaking,
women’s life expectancy is 5-7 years longer than men. Once they
meet something unpleasant, most women would release the anger by
crying, and it is crying that helps them to live a longer life.
Related medical studies show that our tears, stimulated by
emotions, contain a lot of poisonous elements. If one cries, the
poisonous elements come out of one’s body through tears. He said
that crying does no harm to people. However, it should be
remembered that every time one cries, it should not last for more
than five minutes.
According to the professor, most of the factors related with a
healthy long life are actually controlled by people themselves. If
one often loses one's temper, one can easily get diseases such as
vascular sclerosis, heart disease or high blood pressure. Those who
easily get angry and do not vent their anger are most vulnerable to
cancers. He said that most people die of their own living habits.
So it is one's bad habits, rather than some natural disasters, that
affect one’s longevity for most of the time.
The professor said that if one wants to live a longer life, one
should learn more information of how to live a healthy life. The
earlier one learns, the more one will benefit, he said.
(Chinanews.cn January 25, 2007)