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June 10th, 2011 -- Posted in Men's Health |
Fat burning and muscle development requires proper diet and a consistent exercise regimen. But to properly build muscles, you don’t just stay away from meals and food with excessive fats and carbohydrates. You need to eat the right type of food so that you can easily develop muscles in your body.
Think of the food you are eating to build muscles as your “fuel”. Without any fuel, your body will not process anything which means you don’t have anything to develop muscle. With the right type of food, you will have the fuel to burn and bulk your muscles.
High Protein Diet
If you’re looking to develop muscles in your body, consider practicing a high protein diet. Take note of the term “high protein”. This means that you don’t just eat anything with protein. A high protein diet means you are eating foods that contain “complete protein”. This type of protein can help the body bulk, develop muscles and maintain a healthy body.
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June 8th, 2009 -- Posted in Men's Health |
If there is one thing that men have to worry about as they get older, it’s prostate cancer. Apart from visits to the doctor there are some home remedies that men can use to help fight off this bad disease. Of course, these home remedies should be included with a good diet, as well as regular exercise to get the maximum affect.
The first way is to make sure you eat your fish. Not only does fish help to fight off prostate cancer, but it can help stop the growth of a tumour. It is a good idea to get about 2 servings of fish a week. They are high in omega 3 oils. Remember that tuna, salmon, and even mackerel counts as your serving of fish.
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May 19th, 2009 -- Posted in Men's Health |
Condoms, vasectomy and other forms of male contraceptives will have a new competition in the industry: contraceptive injections. As the name suggests, this form of contraception will be administered through injections to sexually active men and will prevent unnecessary pregnancy of their sexual partners for at least 30 days. This form of contraceptive is currently being developed in China and results have been very impressive. Virtually no side-effects will be experienced and the natural reproductive system of men will be back to normal as soon as the male stops the monthly injection.
Curiously, the main ingredient of the contraceptive injection is testosterone undecanoate – a form of anabolic steroid which also helps in controlling hormones. Testosterone undecanoate is already available as a pill but these are regarded as legal steroid and not used for controlling reproduction performance in men.
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April 15th, 2009 -- Posted in Men's Health |
A study that took place at the University of Southern California (USC) found out some new information about men who take folic acid supplements. The study goes on to say that men who take daily folic acid supplement pills of at least 1 mg have an almost double risk of getting prostate cancer compared to men who took a placebo.
These findings came as only secondary information to a study on how aspirin and folic acid affect the colon polyps in men. Overall, the findings showed that aspirin actually reduced the risk of colon polyps. Folic acid, on the other hand, had a negative effect. In fact, folic acid supplements did increase the risk of multiple polyps, or at least increased the advance of polyps.
The final results showed that men who used a folic acid supplement had an increased risk of prostate cancer by about 9.7% (this came over a 10 year study). On the other hand, men who used a placebo only had a 3.3% chance of prostate cancer.
Although, there are other factors that could have played a role in the development of cancer. However, the overall amount of people from both groups that got cancer helps the numbers speak for themselves. The study was done with the support of the National Cancer Institute, as well as the National Institutes of Health.
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April 6th, 2009 -- Posted in Men's Health |
Some people always wonder if it would be better to be circumcised or not. Well, recent studies show that men who are circumcised have a lower risk of infections later on down the road.
In a study that was done on more than 5,000 uncircumcised adults, researchers saw that infection risks, including things like herpes, went down 28 percent after the people were circumcised. However, the transmission of human papilloma virus, also known as HPV, which can cause genital warts and cervical cancer in women who have had sex with men with HPV, saw a drop by 35 percent. Overall, that is a big drop in two main categorizes of very bad viruses.
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March 23rd, 2009 -- Posted in Men's Health |
When you look online for diets, you mostly come across diets for women. However, women are not the only ones that want to be healthier and lose weight. That is why, today, we are going to talk about some dieting tips for men. A diet for men normally not only focuses on losing weight, but on ways to help you perform better. The best way to think about it is like a car. Your car performs better when you use premium gas. Your body does better when you feed it “premium food.”
Our bodies use carbohydrates much like cars use fuel. Thus, in a man’s diet you are going to want about 60 percent of your diet to come from carbohydrates. That means about 6 to 10 servings of things like steamed rice, bread, pasta, and things like that.
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March 11th, 2009 -- Posted in Men's Health |
There are a lot of things that cause hair loss in men. However, the question comes up a lot, what is the main thing that causes hair loss? Some people say it is what we inherit from our families. Others say that it is environmental factors. Although all of these things do affect hair loss, these are not the main things of today that affect men’s hair loss.
Every few years, the main thing that causes hair loss in men seems to change. Nowadays it seems like stress is causing the most hair loss around the world. This could be due to many things. However, right now studies show that most of the stress is related to money because of the struggling economy. This can make it hard to keep your hair in when you are stressed out all the time.
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February 26th, 2009 -- Posted in Men's Health |
If there is something that a lot of men worry about, it’s premature ejaculation. This is a problem that actually affects about 33% of all men in the world. This makes it one of the most common sexual disorders in the word. If you need an easier way to look at this, most experts say that premature ejaculation affects about one in every three men. However, this study can only be based on the people who come and seek help for it.
If you have a problem with premature ejaculation, do not worry. This is a problem that can be fixed. Most of the time, your doctor will recommend you going to a sex therapist.
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February 17th, 2009 -- Posted in Men's Health |
Erectile dysfunction or ED could happen to a man’s life at any age. Although it’s true that the chances increases as you grow older, it doesn’t mean that if you’re only 25 you won’t be experiencing ED. That’s right, even though you’re in your sexual prime, you will experience ED unexpectedly. There will be a situation wherein you are ready for some intimacy with your partner but your body doesn’t react accordingly.
If you’re below 30, or someone who thinks ED just happened to them for the first tie, no need to panic. Some immediately react by taking pills and other expensive products just to prevent ED from happening again. You still have a chance in dealing with ED without having to spend hundreds of dollars.
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February 11th, 2009 -- Posted in Men's Health |
One of the major health concerns for men nowadays is memory loss. This has been a growing concern for quite some time, but studies are now showing that men could be having memory loss 2 to 1 when compared to women. Doctors think that this could be linked to the fact that most men are not doing what they need to in order to keep their brains active. Now we are going to talk about a few tips that men can do to help keep their brains sharp. After all, we have to exercise our brains just like we exercise the rest of our bodies.
If you are not sure how to go about exercising your brain, then here are a few tips that you can use to stay sharp and keep your memory longer. Try to learn how to play an instrument. Learning something new every day really helps to improve the overall brain function in men. Also, you should try to interact with others on a regular basis.
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Fat burning and muscle development requires proper diet and a consistent exercise regimen. But to properly build muscles, you don’t just stay away from meals and food with excessive fats and carbohydrates. You need to eat the right type of food so that you can easily develop muscles in your body.