As if exercising wasn’t already important…
A recent article in the Salt Lake Tribune cited a publishing in the American Journal of Medicine that calculated more than 18 million American men over age 20 are affected by erectile dysfunction.
One common link to ED? Poor eating and not enough exercise:
Almost 90 percent of the studied men with dysfunction had at least one risk factor for heart disease, such as diabetes, hypertension, poor cholesterol levels or smoking. They also were less likely to have had strenuous exercise within the month prior to the study.
“This may be a powerful motivator for male patients who may be at risk for cardiovascular disease or who have diabetes,” said Elizabeth Selvin, lead author and a faculty member in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Department of Epidemiology. “It’s another reason to get off the couch and exercise and eat well.”
Within that same article, it notes how men tend to put things off. Maybe hearing about potential sexual issues will start waking some of us up to a healthier lifestyle. I don’t know about anybody else, but having sexual problems down the road is nothing I want to contend with. If eating right and weekly exercise will keep my heart ticking and sexual life active, I’m game.
healthybpm,
I agree. It’s almost become human nature to sit tight and only react when our bodies start screaming for attention. What most people don’t realize is that it doesn’t take much. Get yourself onto a healthy eating lifestyle (notice: lifestyle, not diet) and head to the gym 3-4 times a week. From there, you can build onto your routine…
Remember that a lot of men eat garbage, but many eat what they think is healthy food. Many men are eating “low fat”, “cutting saturated fat”, “watching their cholesterol” and “adding soy to their diets”.
In the process of eating what the government, the ADA, the AMA and the media says is healthy we have discarded healthy whole foods for foods laden with man made fats, chemicals (like MSG and fructose) and soy. These foods and food products have deleterious effects on the human body. Some of which have been known for more than half a century. Soy by the way has been used by munks for centuries to curb their libido in order to help attain enlightenment. Is it any wonder men are having an increase in the prevalence of ED.
Mike you are exactly right as it becomes so difficult to tell the difference between what is healthy and what is not healthy for you!