C2-Sunday News, June 29, 1980

Women ‘biologically

BERKELY, Calif. (UPI -
Women live longer than men
superior -—~- not because
men’s jobs tend to be more
hazardous — a University of
California researcher

reports.

Men’s life expectancy,
which is 69 years in the
United States compared with
T? years for women, is
shorter because “women are
simply biologically more fit
than men,” concluded
Deborah L. Wingard in the
research paper for her Ph.D.

Most studies have at-
tributed the difference to
working conditions and
associated health problems.

“I thought the fact that
men are more hkely to have

NEW YORK (UPI) - A
natural. method of family
planning ss 98.5 percent
effective when used
correctly and may cventually
replace the birth contro! pill.

two medical = scicntists
reported,

The “ovulation period” is
harmless, rcliablte and
morally acceptable to
medical and religious
organizations, said Dr

Bernard Pisanr, a professor
at New York University
School of Medicinc, and Dr
John J Brennan. of St
Vincent's
Milwaukee

Brennan ws past president
of the Cathohc

Hospital

Physicians

Goultd of the UNA Ihe
Roman Cathohe church
prohibits artificial birth
control, sp fact: reconfirmed

more fit’ than men

certain poor health habits,
such as smoking and
drinking, would explain why
they die earlier,” said Ms.
Wingard, who was ap-
pointed last week as
professor of epidemiology at
the University of California,
San Diego, School of
Medicine,

But Ms. Wingard said
when she began her research
by listing 16 risk factors, her
“first surprise was that
women had more high risk
characteristics than men.”

Risk factors “used in ler
study included smoking,
drinking, physical inactivity,
age, race, occupation, socio
economic status, weight,
sleeping patterns use of
health services, church and

Doctors promoting
‘natural’ birth control

by Pope Johg Paul II during
his recent visit to the United
States

Polls repeatedly show the
majority of American
Cathohes do not pay at
tention to the prohibition

The
natural
method,
Melbournc.

doctors said the
birth regulation
developed in
Austraha. by
John and Lyn
Billings was being used tn
more than 100 countmes

doctors

The
based

ovulation method ts
the fact
phase of
cycle,

on that a

certain the men

strual the cervical
glands secrete a mucus that
changes dramatn ally during

the hours

surrounding

ovulation a highly fertule

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Despite the risk factors,
Ms. Wingard said, “Women
have lower death rates in
virtually every country, at
almost every age and for
mest causes of death.

“Even during the first year
of life, male infants are 30
per cent more likely to die
than girl babies,” she said.

Research for Ms.
Wingard’s dissertation,
entitled “The Sex Differen-
tial jn Mortality Rates,” was
conducted over a 9-year
period during which she
interviewed 2,229 men and
2.496 women, primarily
residents of Oakland and
Berkeley.

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A woman following § the
method is taught how to
recognize this secretion and

by observing and = in A
terpreting its changes, Qevanden
accurately pinpoint = the

critical phase of ovulation

The doctors said the
method was developed by an
international (cam of
doctors under the direction |
of the World Organizaton of
the Ovulahon Method
Billings WOOMB Among
the advisory board members
to WOOMB 1s) Mother
Teresa of Calcutta, 1979
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