Category: Men’s Health and Wellness (Page 46 of 46)

      Polyunsaturated fats – Health food or poison

      October 4, 2006 /

      According to a recent article, the vast majority of oil we buy in the grocery store is already spoiled.? Most of the oils sold in stores are?polyunsaturated because they are?inexpensive to manufacture and offer high profit margins.?

      The article explains that?despite what we’ve been told, polyunsaturated oils made from; corn, soy, sunflower and?cotton seed, are very unhealthy.

      Safflower, corn, sunflower, soybean and cottonseed oils all contain over 50% of the highly unstable fatty acid Omega-6 and should never be used in cooking, frying or baking. Heating these oils causes oxidation and produces large amounts of free radicals.

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      Food preparation, Foods products, Men's Health and Wellness, Nutrition

      Diabetes and Cancer linked.

      October 4, 2006 /

      According to Newsmax.com’s Health Alert,?a large study of Japanese adults found those with diabetes were more likely to develop cancer, especially of certain organs such as the pancreas and liver, researchers said on Monday.

      Men with diabetes in the study of nearly 98,000 people were 27 percent more likely than non-diabetics to be diagnosed with cancer, the study by the National Cancer Center in Tokyo found. Women afflicted with diabetes were also more at risk for cancer, though the association was not as clear as with men.

      Study author Manami Inoue wrote in this month’s Archives of Internal Medicine that researchers have suspected a link between the two diseases but have not had conclusive evidence. One theory holds that adult-onset diabetes produces excess insulin that may promote cancer cell growth in the liver or pancreas.

      Diabetes, which is on the rise in many parts of the world, may also alter levels of sex hormones that could contribute to ovarian cancer in women and prostate cancer in men. But Inoue cautioned that either disease may be the cause of the other, and both may be tied to obesity in many patients.

      Cancer, Medical Issues for Men, Men's Health and Wellness, Prostate health

      Type II diabetes associated with low testosterone.

      September 26, 2006 /

      Testosterone.? It’s what makes a man a man.? It?gives us muscle mass, keeps our bones dense, enhances our mood, promotes agressiveness, puts the wood in our woody, and enhances insulin function.???A new study suggests that 1/3rd of men with type 2 diabetes have low test levels.??As a result?these men have a higher incedence of; muscle loss, depression, bone loss, and erectile disfunction.? As if a diabetic doesn’t have enough to worry about, let’s through in the loss of his manhood.

      Sandeep Dhinsda, MD.:
      “We are describing a new complication of type 2 diabetes. We are saying that the largest group of people who have low testosterone are diabetics, It means your pituitary gland, which controls all the other hormones in your body, is not working very well. We are talking about one-third of men with diabetes being at risk of high fat mass, low muscle mass, low bone density, depression, and erectile dysfunction.” Find the full article HERE.

      The incidence of type?2 diabetes is on the rise.? In fact you could say its reached epidemic proportions.? This may be a suprise to some until you learn that type 2 is related to lifestyle.? I’m sure you all are aware of the average American’s lifestyle, pathetic.??Being fat, lazy and sufferring from erectile disfunction is no way to go through life.? Get some discipline, get off your ass and stop eating donuts.? If looking like the Michelin Man who can’t use, let alone see, his willy isn’t enough incentive to change your lifestyle, I have no sympathy.

      Medical Issues for Men, Men's Health and Wellness

      Drug companies may have more control in FDA policies.

      September 23, 2006 /

      For most of it’s existance the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was funded entirely by the US government.? Right around 1990 drug companies in an effort to speed up the drug approval pace?cut a deal with the FDA?to pay millions.? This agreement is renegotiated every five years and gives the pharmaceutical industry leverage as to which programs receive funding.? In a recent article Dr. Kesler a former FDA official says the negotiations raise troubling questions:

      “There is no doubt that user fees give the industry leverage on setting the agency’s priorities, because of the negotiating process,” says Dr. Kessler, now dean of the medical school at the University of California, San Francisco. “There are significant risks, especially when a growing percentage of the budget comes from user fees,” he says, adding he doesn’t think the FDA has been compromised so far.

      ?If the FDA gets what it is looking for in this new deal, by October of 2007 the pharmaceutical industry will be paying for more than 66% of the agencies buget.? An agency being funded by the companies it oversees?? WTF?!

      Men's Health and Wellness

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