Left-Handed Women Face A Higher Risk Of Death

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 5-2-2007

[doc1019]

So, being left handed is a precursor to death? Got news for the researchers, “we all gona die” and I don’t think the hand you favor has much to do with it.

[EGPWS]

I'm left handed, but male.

You have gained a reprieve through sex!

[Petronski]

Isn’t the risk of death 100% for everyone?

[mware]

I am a left handed woman too. I have 7 brothers and sisters and am the only one who is left handed. Don't know about all those diseases but I did just have my gall bladder taken out.

[Liberty Valance]

My wife and I are both left-handed. We had hopes for our son but he’s a righty. ;o)

[go-dubya-04]

Hmmm. Where does this leave me? I write and eat right-handed but throw, play tennis and hit left-handed. Right-handed but left-armed?

[EGPWS]

The study could not pinpoint the mechanism for the increased risk,...

Well then by golly, lets all get our wallets out and keep this study going so perhaps someday we can cure death. ; )

[HungarianGypsy]

hmm. what of those who are left handed, but were trained right handed?

[Star Traveler]

You said — “Atleast until 1960s left handers were forced to learn to write with their right hand.”

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Well, it didn’t work with me. They never could get me to do that... :-)

[berkeleybeej]

May I recommend to you all a book “Sinestral People”. Left handed women tend to think more like right handed men. Handedness is a subject I have been most interested in. Of course there are varients in handedness. The way we hold the writing implements, mixed dominents...

Anyway, you will find that there is a marked difference in IQ and social abilities with the left handed as opposed to the righties.

[EGPWS]

Hmmm. Where does this leave me? I write and eat right-handed but throw, play tennis and hit left-handed. Right-handed but left-armed?

Let me guess, you haven't achieved "middle age" yet..../snicker

[berkeleybeej]

Mixed dominants.

[go-dubya-04]

Aged 48 years

[berkeleybeej]

Stuttering is a known response to forcible handedness change. Has to do with the brain’s center for speech.

[EGPWS]

Aged 48 years

tic...tic...tic...

Do you have a will? LOL!

[abigailsmybaby]

But if she had been right handed she would have lived to be 101.

[EGPWS]

hmm. what of those who are left handed, but were trained right handed?

You have then learned to live longer.

Good for you!

[perfect stranger]

The research I have seen regarding this parity shows that the majority of people are right-handed, at least 3-1 odds.

I would conclude by telling you that it is very easy to lie with numbers.

It was only a matter of time until the political left ran out of ideas and causes, but their shortsighted observations will continue.

Are left handed people the new minority that everybody has to make room for?

[abigailsmybaby]

My hubby is that way too..except for the throwing. But anything he had to swing; bat, tennis racket, golf club—left handed.

[blam]

"Did this study omit men because they are not at risk, or more likely because in this feminist age, nobody cares?"

Nobody cares. I read the other day how they're having sex and babies without us.