How factors: love, connection, ability, and a stressful environment affect longevity?
Jeanne Calment died at age of 122 years.
According to the statistic of the length of stay in nursing homes at the end of life of the old, if the old come to the nursing home, the chance of the old living in the nursing home is nearly zero percent. It means that if your healthy 60-year-old enter the nursing home, the chance for them to live to 70 years old are very rare let alone they can live to 78 years old as the USA life expectancy.
Length of stay in nursing homes at the end of life of the old is less than 120 months. Most of them died during the first six months and the first thirty months.
Alarming the distribution of stress results all over the world:
Let look at the geographical global distribution of some factors by the search on Google. Readers can easily search the articles and images on Google.
1. Age-standardized suicide rates per 100000 populations, both sexes, 2012 around the world.
2. Alcohol consumption by per capita consumption (liters) around the world
3. The attitude of population toward foreign visitors: most and least welcoming to foreigners
4. Average daily suicide rate per month around the world
5. Child poverty in the developed world
6. Corrupt across the world visualized: countries and territories ranked on perceived public sector corruption in 2014.
7. The discrepancy in education around the world
8. The discrepancy in secondary education around the world in 2015
9. Distribution of the diseases by countries around the world
10. Economic inequality around the world
11. Global gun deaths
12. Infant mortality rate per 1000 birth around the world
13. The probability of dying from the four main non-communicable diseases between the ages of 30 and 70 years, comparable estimates around the world in 2012
14. The rate of chronic hepatitis B virus infection around the world
15. The best and worst countries to be a mother
16. The best and worst places to be born
17. The distribution of heart diseases, diabetes around the world
18. The global overview 2014: people internally displaced by conflict and violence around the world
19. The health and chronic diseases of newborn babies depend on the month they are born.
20. The prevalence of heavy episodic drinking or binge drinking among male drinker around the world in 2004
21. The rate of equal education between male and female around the world
22. The rate of mental illnesses of adult and children around the world
23. The rate of suicide and homicide around the world
24. Geographic distribution of death sentences in the United States and around the world.
25. Women in politics around the world
26. World map of annual cannabis use

42. Distribution of trafficking of females around the world.
43. Prevalence of female genital cutting around the world scaled 2011
44. The distribution of leading causes of lost years of life around the world in 2013
Going everywhere in the world, you will experience physical and/or sexual violence by a partner or sexual violence by a non-partner. “What is happening, what is the curse for human beings when the prevalence of women suffered intimate partner violence by WHO rouse around lowest is 23.2% in high income countries and highest are 36.6% in the African region, 37.0% in the Eastern Mediterranean Region and 37.7% in the South-East Asia Region; it means one in three women. This is the tipping of the iceberg; we will have to suffer more if we do not eradicate the root.
People in the stressed world find drugs like “cocaine, cannabis, amphetamine stimulants, opioids, solvents and inhalants, sedatives” to relieve pain and find temporary good state. Let look at “What drugs countries seek treatment for.” And “World Wealth level around the world in every year”
45. What drugs countries seek treatment for
46. World Wealth level around the world every year
The pattern thinking of human beings can be found in the allocation of their asset on investment, spending, education or buying the protective weapon. We will understand the real world we are living because “all in one and one in all”. The spending of the United States on military in 2015 was $596.5 Billion that account for 54% of all spending of the United State in the year of 2015. All the major areas for stability and development like education, Medicare & health, veteran’s benefits, housing & community, international affairs, energy & environment, science, social security, unemployment & labor, transportation, and food and agriculture was less than the spending on the military.
“Do not ask me about the stability and development when people spend major resources on a minor military, and spend minor resources on all other major sectors” |
It is the lack of virtue, goodness, kindness, and integrity in society.

Seasonal stress in the developed world
Cancer and stress from the discontented mind in the United States.
Table 23: Top 10 American children’s health concerns, 2011
Top U.S. children’s health concerns
| Top 10 U.S. Children’s health concerns rated by Hispanics
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Source: C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children's Health, 2011 |
Ø Heart disease death rates, 2008 -2010, adults, by county, highest in the Southeast United States or urban areas.
Percentage of people in poverty for the past 12 months, by state in 2011; the 2011 United States poverty average is 15.9 %. The Southeast states have the high percentage of people live in poverty. The gap of standard living makes the poor become more discontent and more stressed when they compare with rich people. Arizona has 19% of people in poverty, Mississippi with 22.6% of people in poverty.
According to Huffington Post, people live in urban areas of southeast America have the healthy life expectancy at age 65 is 13 years or less, whereas, people live other less developed areas have the life expectancy at age 65 is higher; some areas with 15 years or more.
Seasonal stress in America
Stress month of America is the January and February because it is the time to pay the debt by credit card. The financial burden is so heavy for them because they have overspent on the shopping season and Black Friday before Christmas and New Year.· Americans are so much stressed after overeating, overspending, and discontent with stressful work after the long holiday. So that the flu season in America in January and February. There are a lot of incidences of deaths, flu, and strokes at the beginning of the year more than another month of the year. Even the weather of spring is better than the weather of winter.
· The incidences of death rates and heart diseases in The United States during the beginning of the year are significantly higher than another month of the year and similar to with other developed countries.
· Americans are so much stress with the burden put on them so that the month of heart diseases is February.
American misery index of 2014 searched on the Google
Look at the daily misery index, 2014 by the keywords searched on Google are depression, anxiety, pain, stress, and fatigue. The fluctuation of the searches is also the fluctuation of stress in the United States in 2014, retrieved from “The Google misery index: The times of year we’re most depressed, anxious and stressed” by Christopher Ingraham on The Washington Post:
- The searches rise in the spring and fall, ebb during the summer months, and drop sharply during holidays. Christmas is the least miserable days of the year, with Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day.
The rhythm of stress during the week:
Peaks and valleys in the raw reflect the rhythm of the workweek. People are more stressed on weekdays, less so on weekends. Weekends are the best day of the week:· Pain and anxiety peak on Mondays, these numbers suggest that people literally hurt more on Mondays or afraid of boring stressful work.
· Stress and depression are high on Tuesdays. Fatigue is high on Wednesday.
· Searches for all terms drop sharply going into the weekend and then edge back upward on Sunday.
· The gap between weekends and weekdays shrinks in the summer months (summer holiday): those peaks and valleys are a lot closer to each other in July than they are in March and April.
· The annual trend in searches for "seasonal affective disorder," we will find that these peak in December and January. But the broader terms like "depression," "anxiety," and "stress," all show a pronounced dip in December. It means that shopping, preparing, planning, waiting and expecting, and enjoying for the important and exciting days of the year make people happier than other days.
· At the daily level, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas day, and New Year are all among the year's least-miserable or least stressed days.
· After long and expensive holiday has made people more frustrated with work, but they have to bear the financial burden of the overspending credit card for the shopping season, Black Friday, and the spending during the holiday has made the people suffer the worst stress. These may be the trigger of the stress that they have suffered for a long time.
· Randomly, on Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014 the large upper-level of stress words searched were accompanying cold front draped across the Central United States on April 18. Formed April 15, 2016, and dissipated April 23rd, 2016. With snowfall, ice accretion, and rainfall near 51 cm around the Houston, Texas areas. Damage $ 2.7 billion. On 23rd April 2016 was the highest search with the stress words.
· 4/7/2016 is the National Day of America. People enjoy and celebrate so the stress words search on Google is the lowest.
· Perhaps, people glad and treat well with each other on Valentine day, so the Saturday after valentine day of 2016, the stress words search on Google is the lowest.
· Days of New Year, Thanksgiving, and Christmas was the happiest day of American. So the stress words search on Google is the lowest.
Reading this article, the facts show the reader enormously how fragile modern people are! People in wealthy countries and all over the world are fall to the rhythm of stress on society. There are no direct root causes, stress is the accumulation of countless bad behaviors. Rare anyone can escape from the effect of stress, all people are affected by stress directly or indirectly. Worse of all, the infants, babies, the young, the old, the weak are the most fragile creatures affected first, then all people in society and the whole world will suffer later directly and indirectly. The sages will show the way to get out the spiral of stress.
The South African Stress and Health (SASH) study
By observing, you will see people living in the city with a lot of facilities do not make them happy if they have a discontent mind. Even worse, by comparing with other, discontent mind can fall to extreme stress.People of South African are more stress than Nigerians are. Perhaps they do not accept or deal well with the problems as Nigerians do. They do not deal well with poverty and inequality as the Nigerians do. Lack of skills, abilities and discontent mind make them suffer more stress than Nigerian.
Especially, people in cities are lack of connection with people and nature so that they fall to more stressful and mental illness compared with the people in rural areas.
People and children in cities are better facilitated and fed than the people and children in the rural areas so that they lack some vital skills to deal with stress, people in cities are more stressed and get more mental illness than people live in the city. It is the skill, ability, and environment have directly and indirectly caused people stressed.
The Western Cape, which has the highest prevalence of common mental disorders, was the first region of South Africa to be colonized and has a high level of urbanization. In contrast, rural provinces generally have lower rates of common mental disorders, with the lowest rates in the Eastern Cape.
South Africa has a relatively high 12-month prevalence of anxiety and mood disorders when compared with the other countries in the World Mental Health Survey. Only Belgium, France, Germany, New Zealand, The Netherlands, Colombia, Lebanon, and the USA have higher rates of anxiety disorders than South Africa. And Belgium, Lebanon, Colombia, The Netherlands, France, Ukraine, Israel, New Zealand, and the USA have higher rates of mood disorders than South Africa. Hopeful that in the near future, scientists will find out detail the varieties in the cause and effect of stress on people.
Only 1 in 10 Nigerians had a lifetime DSM disorder, compared with 1 in 3 South Africans. Compared with Nigerians, twice as many South Africans had lifetime anxiety disorders, 4 times as many had lifetime mood disorders, and almost 6 times as many had substance use disorders. Reasons for differences in the prevalence of mental disorders in high- and low-income countries belong to the varieties stress states in the mind of people.
A recent study conducted by international research company Bloomberg, ranked South Africa as the second "most stressed out" nation in the world, following Nigeria. El Salvador was ranked third. "High-stress levels have been linked to mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety, and can also lead to substance abuse. In severe cases, these problems can lead to a person becoming suicidal," says Viljoen, but if make a deeper investigation, people will be astonished by the results of stress and the causes of stress that they are making and bearing.
The problem of the rich: substance abuse
Psychiatric illness on the rise: South Africa already has high rates of substance abuse with, for example, alcohol alone being the third-highest contributor to death and disability among citizens, according to a 2014 study published in the South African Medical Journal.Dominique Stott from the Professional Provident Society, an insurance company for graduate professionals, said: "Rates of major mental illnesses such as schizophrenia seem to be stable but cases of depression and anxiety are certainly escalating." Perhaps, stability in major mental illness is own for the raising high standard of living, healthcare, and insurance so that they can treat the mental illness sooner and better. But the case of depression and anxiety are escalating because these above factors do not have any influence on the poor habitual living, poor cultural living, the stressful lifestyle and the poor abilities of the individuals.
Season of stress, not the season of heat and cold
Summer break in the United States - Around 10-11 weeks, either from the end of May to early August, early June to Mid-August, or the end of June to the day after Labor Day in early September, or late June to the day after Labor Day - depending on region and state.The death rate in Canada by month from 2007 to 2011 is the same. Whereas the incidents of injury are increased substantially during these months, and the teenage deaths during these months do not reduce as the total death.
During these summer days, just the small fluctuation of the hot temperature below 35 Co degrees can make changes in the number of deaths in developed countries. Temperature with 35 Co degrees is the normal temperature during the summer of people in developing countries in South East Asia, India. And it can be seen as the cool temperature in India and Africa. People in these developing countries usually live with a shortage of electricity and water during the hot summer.
Lack of vital things leads them to lack the adaptability with the small changes in temperature. The temperature is not the cause of deaths; perhaps, it is the trigger to worsen the stress of stressed people in western countries.
People died more because of diseases caused by stress despite the fact that the standard of living and healthcare have increased substantially.
Worldwide Facts
Over 80 percent of the world's deaths from heart disease occur in low- and middle-income countries. Stress is the product of poor interaction with too many problems and inequality. These lead to the discontent mind.Stress is illogical. The mind is irrational.
These can explain the paradox that the French diet is high in dairy, fats, and red meat, these factors known to increase heart disease risk.
According to Oishimaya Sen Nag from Worldatlas.com,
The top five countries with the highest rates of heart disease deaths are:
1. Russia2. Bulgaria
3. Romania
4. Hungary
5. Argentina
The top five countries with the lowest rates of heart disease deaths are:
1. France2. Australia
3. Switzerland
4. Japan
5. Israel
Rainbow of stress
Because of the difference in the social status, social recognition, social gender advantages, religions, instincts, abilities, talents, and skills of different gender so that men and women suffer different stress outcomes spread on the rainbow of stress.In America, suicide rates with age from 15-24 years old people, the number of males committed suicide substantially higher than the number of females.
Nation sport in America caused different fatalities per 100000 students in high school after-school club activities from 1998 to 2007. It depends on the kind of fierce competitive sport or cooperative sport:
Ø “Fatalities per 100000 students are highest in Judo and Rugby”, and lowest in tennis and table tennis.
Ø The sports like basketball, soccer, baseball have an average number of fatalities per 100000 students.
Cancer alarm at the firehouse, is it relates to stress at work? The answer is yes. Let see some clues. Stress in fighting fire is the factors that may multiply the effect of air quality of firing building. No one can imagine how stressful, how horrible, how hard in the battle with the fire of firefighters. Firefighters, their friends, the lives of people may die if they make mistake and fail.
During the firefighting, their bodies have surged with the highest level of stress chemicals than the workers of other jobs that rarely anyone can imagine.
The study of Harvard researchers also showed that younger firefighters had more cases of certain types of cancer, such as bladder and prostate, than expected, that chances of lung cancer increased with time spent at fires, and the chances of dying from leukemia increased with the number of fire runs. These may be the indicators of skills, abilities, and state of mind of the young firefighters.
Harvard researchers led by postdoctoral fellow Emily Sparer, researchers including students from Harvard and MIT have teamed up with local fire departments to tackle a healthcare mystery: How does the firehouse itself increase cancer risk among firefighters?
The research showed an elevated rate of cancer diagnoses and deaths for firefighters, mainly for the digestive, oral, respiratory, and urinary disease. In addition, firefighters were about twice as likely to develop malignant mesothelioma, rare cancer related to asbestos exposure.
Heal thyself
There are facts that breast cancer survivors cite in preventing a recurrence. The major contribution to the long-term breast cancer survivors relates to the mind like positive attitude, diet, healthy lifestyle, exercise, stress reduction, and prayer. All of these factors help to make people happier, less misery, less stress than normal. These factors make the mind in a good state and happy state so that the potential mind will correct the immune system, activate the healing function of the bodies. The human mind and human bodies have the most sophisticated and most effective function of protecting and healing the body that people not yet know.
Table 24: Attributions of cause and recurrence in long-term breast cancer survivors, 2001
Table 24: Attributions of cause and recurrence in long-term breast cancer survivors, 2001
Factors | Percent |
1. Positive attitude | 60% |
2. Diet | 50% |
3. Healthy lifestyle | 40 % |
4. Exercise | 39% |
5. Stress reduction | 28% |
6. Prayer | 20% |
7. Complementary therapies | 11% |
8. Don’t know | 5% |
9. Luck | 4% |
10. Tamoxifen | 4% |
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