There are many different species of turmeric. The most commonly used is Curcuma longa, also known as Curcuma domestica. The two main varieties of the C. longa species are Alleppey and Madras. Alleppey is preferred in the United States.
The news is a little better for women, a little worse for men. Life expectancy for females is 81.2 years; for males, it's 76.4 years. That difference of 4.8 years is the same as in 2011.
And, shockingly, deaths come almost 30 years earlier than the international average in a fifth of counties across the U.S. The average age to which an American male can expect to live is just over 75 and a half years, but that is quite a bit younger than their Japanese counterparts who can hope to make it to 79.