This question has been studied time and time again.
Study after study, no clear winner has emerged.
Has anyone ever wondered why? Haven't the scientific results shown a clear champion? The reason for the lack of a winner is clear - there is no clear distinction between the health of men and women because there are simply too many things to take into consideration that affect our individual health.
Our genetics, our diet, our work habits, our exercise - all of these things contribute to the overall state of our health.
The latter three contributors can be found crossing the lines of gender, as females and males have all sorts of occupations, workout habits, and eating routines.
Genetic disposition, however, is the one area that contributes to our health in a way that may be gender based.
Talking about genetic predisposition, one must understand that, on the most basic level of human life, we received input from our mothers and our fathers.
While women on the whole inherit a large number of traits from their mothers, and the same for males and their fathers, this does not mean that we only receive input from the parent who is the same gender as we are.
Our overall health comes as a result of what we do on a daily basis and the possibilities we've inherited from our parents.
For example, we may inherit a higher risk for heart disease, but by leading a life of a healthy workout routines, good nutritional habits, and supplementing our bodies as needed with the vitamins, minerals, and amount of rest we require, we may be able to overcome the potential for ill-health passed to us in our genes.
It is for this reason that it is hard to determine who is healthier between men or women.
Neither breaks out as being consistently healthier.
Perhaps a better question to ask might be: what kind of person is healthier - the one who has an exercise routine or the one who prefers sitting on the couch? In this case, definite conclusions can be drawn based on each individual's lifestyle and eating choices.
These sorts of things are the real contributors to the question of who is the healthiest.
Scientific studies have proven that, in general, women tend to have a longer lifespan than men.
But does that necessarily mean they are healthier? No, this is simply a fact about longevity.
Quality and quantity of life are not the same thing.
While it is true that your odds of having a long life depend on the healthy state in which you keep your body, but one is not necessarily equal to the other.
Sometimes factors about lifespan come into play that have little to do with health.
One example is that men are proven to be greater risk takers over women, and simply because they are not as cautious as women are at a younger age, they may end up having a higher death rate on the whole.
Women, while they are proven to have a longer average lifespan, often spend their lives doing less activity.
Does this mean one individual is automatically healthier than another? Not necessarily.
Less activity and a more sedentary lifestyle does make one less healthy.
Our healthy states are dependent on a combination of good nutritional habits and a consistent routine of working out.
If we spend more time being sedentary, we develop less muscles, and the less our bodies can achieve optimal health.
So, the question of who is healthier among men and women is not a simple matter of one over the other.
While we each hope our own gender is predestined to be more healthy, it's not an issue of simply male versus female.