Research shows that being seriously overweight can take ten years off an average lifespan.
If Dr Rattan is wrong, maximum lifespan as well as average lifespan will increase.
Average male lifespan in the US is 75 and average female lifespan is 80.
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That's nearly three years more than the average lifespan in the United States.
The average lifespan in Namibia is 47, meaning that many people are losing a lot of prime earning years.
Also, the average American lived until 70 in 1965 and now the average lifespan is about 78.5 years.
Nor, despite the increase in average lifespan in the rich world over the past few centuries, is post-reproductive survival a modern phenomenon.
Two-hundred years ago, the average lifespan was only about 30.
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If we looked at everyone born in one county and then measured their age of death then we would know the average lifespan of those born in that county.
If financing can be finalized and Cape Wind is eventually built, the Interior Department's lease will allow it to operate for 25 years, which is the average lifespan of a wind farm.
Once factors such as spinsterhood and early hysterectomy were eliminated from the statistics, it became clear that the centenarians were three times more likely to have given birth to at least one child in their 40s than those who had then gone on to live only an average lifespan.
In 1935 when the original Social Security Act was established, the average expected lifespan was 62 years.
You defend it by pointing out that the average American lifespan has lengthened considerably in the years since Social Security was enacted in the 1930s.
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Our expected lifespan, thus our expected length of retirement, is an average.
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