Study Shows Less Men are Having Prostate Cancer Screening

Prostate cancer is probably one of the most common illness plaguing the male population of the world. In fact, one of every three men diagnosed with cancer have prostate cancer. Skin cancer is the number cancer among men.

But this does not make most men to think that they should do something about preventing this disease from disrupting their lives. Because a recent study showed that less and less men are taking time to have prostate-specific antigen test or digital rectal exam done on them. These two are routine procedures performed to check to symptoms of prostate cancer.

The study showed that most men, after weighing the pros and cons of having prostate cancer screening test, decided not to have it at all for the mere fact that they believe that these tests does absolutely nothing because of the fact that they are inaccurate. This is even after several American and Swedish researchers have identified genetic markers that appear to raise the risk of prostate cancer.

Most respondents to this study said that prostate cancer screening tests are nebulous and are useless, as far as they can see. One even said that he would only take the test only if they find a way to be really definite with their assumptions about the illness.

It's Not Just For Women

If you thought osteoporosis is a disease that only occurs in women, better think again. Because new guidelines set in Washington has just came out, advising men, especially those aged over 70 years to get a routine check-up for bone-thinning osteoporosis. This is in line with the effort to better target who really needs treatment and who an safely skip it, even before someone's bones become too thin to be officially labeled an osteoporosis patient.

But don;t get it wrong, because post-menopausal women are still at greatest risk of osteoporosis, when bone-strengthening estrogen plummets. This is just a warning to the male population after finding out with a study conducted by the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons reveal that there are more and more men suffering from hip fractures due to weakening bone structure.

One more fact is that more than half of fractures due to bone loss occur on people whose bones are thinning but aren't quite thin to be considered osteoporosis, a condition called osteopenia. The rising cases of osteopenia is a clear indication that men, just like women, just start keeping tabs on the condition of their bones. In the United States alone, 10 million people have osteoporosis and 34 million are suffering from osteopenia.

Aside from having early check-up to find out if they are already suffering from osteoporosis and osteopenia, professionals also advised everyone, especially the older people to start consuming 1,200 milligrams of calcium per day and 800 to 1,000 international units of Vitamin D. They should also do regular weight-bearing and muscle-strengthening exercises.

Nutritional Tips on How to Minimize Hair Loss

Are you tired of being embarrassed every time just because you are going bald? Does you thinning hair and receding hair line become such a drag? And have you tried every shampoo, conditioner and cream in hopes that you'll get your old thick and shiny hair back? Well, you're just probably doing it all wrong. Because just like any other health condition out there, a healthy diet and the proper nutrition are all you need to kiss those trouble goodbye.

Healthy hair, as most of us don't know, depends on how the body can construct a proper hair shaft, as well as having healthy skin and follicles. That is why it has been proven that a good nutrition assures the best best possible environment for building strong and luxurious hair. And here are just some of the adjustments you'll need to once again get that shine that your crowning glory provided you years ago.

Iron-rich protein. Protein is a very important nutrient for cell growth, including hair cells. Hair gets its structure from hardened proteins called keratin, and without enough keratin hair grow slowly and the individual strands will be weaker. Also, the iron found in animal protein called heme iron is also good for your hair because they are easily absorbed by the body to be used in the regeneration of loss cells. Iron also helps red blood cells carry oxygen to all cells om the body, including hair follicles. Some of the food rich with these nutrients are clams, oysters, lean beef, turkey, duck, lamb, chicken, pork, shrimp, and eggs. You can also include tofu, soybeans, lentils, beans, and black-eyed peas in your diet to promote more absorption of proteins.

Vitamin C. Vitamin C helps in hair growth by improving the body's ability to absorb iron, which as we have just learned, are very helpful against hair loss. This nutrient also form collagen, structural fibers necessary for the body to maintain integrity by holding it together. Skin, blood vessels and hair follicles all require collagen to stay healthy for optimal growth of beautiful hair. Good sources of Vitamin C are guava, peppers, oranges, grapefruit, strawberries, pineapple, papayas, lemons, broccoli, kale, and Brussels sprouts.

B-vitamins like folate, vitamin B-6, vitamin B-12. These vitamins are the ones responsible in the creation of red-blood cells, which are carriers of oxygen and nutrients to all body cells, including those of the scalp, follicle and hair. Without these vitamins, the cells will not be able to grow and will cause hair shedding, slow growth and weak hair prone to breaking. Foods that are rich with these vitamins includes fortified whole-grain breakfast cereals, garbanzo beans, wild salmon, lean beef, pork tenderloin, chicken breast, white potatoes (w/skin), bananas, and lentils. Shellfish (clams, oysters, crab), wild salmon, fortified whole-grain breakfast cereal, soy milk, trout, lean beef, and low-fat cottage cheese can also be good sources of these vitamins.

Zinc. The mineral zinc is involved in tissue growth and repair, which includes hair growth. It also helps the oil glands around the hair follicles by making sure they work properly. Without these mineral, hair loss can be prone, so is slow growth and the production of dandruff. Oysters, lean beef, crab, ostrich, pork tenderloin, peanut butter, wheat germ, turkey, veal, pumpkin seeds, chicken, and chickpeas are very rich with zinc.

Good diet and proper nutrition may be good for your hair loss. But these food items can also be of no help, especially with more serious conditions of baldness, including male pattern baldness and baldness due to aging.

But other than those, these tips will definitely help you solve you battle against thinning hair, hair loss and baldness.

It's Not As Safe As We Thought It Were

Herbal supplements that are circulating on the market today claim to be all natural and safe for consumption, and that they can treat just about any illness in the safest way possible because of the guarantee of minimal to no side effects. But that is not the case with a couple of men who started taking these so-called "natural herbal supplement" so they can boost their sexual performance and grow bigger muscles. Instead, they just ended up having advanced prostate cancer.

After several warnings over the past years about the risks of these herbal supplements that are marketed as "safe and natural," the US Food and Drug Administration again issued a public alert against these products for they may contain unknown and potentially dangerous ingredients even though they claim of being otherwise.

According to the FDA, physicians still need to ask their patients not only about their prescriptions drugs, but more importantly, about other drugs and supplements that they are purchasing over-the-counter. They claim that these are the ones that may have a profound impact on certain health conditions of the patients.

On the other hand, the FDA also advised the public to seek first approval from their personal doctors before even trying to start on any kind of medication, may it be something that should be prescribed or not.

Researchers who conducted several studies about these dietary supplements, especially those available through the Internet, said that what happened to these patients should be a lesson to those people who are very concerned about their health problems but doesn't come to professional practitioners about their conditions.

The patients, a 67-year old white man and a 51-year old black man, have both survived. But both of already have extensive cancer that has spread and is continuously spreading throughout their bodies.

FDA Warns Public Against Chinese Herbal Supplements

The US Food and Drug Administration warns the public about the danger that some of the Chinese-made dietary supplements that provide male sexual enhancement might be harmful to them. Those herbal pills are reportedly to be containing the same chemical components as of those erectile dysfunction drugs that are declared to be unsafe for consumption.

The agency advised consumers to the hazard these supplements have, especially those that are manufactured by a company called Shanghai Chaojimengnan. the company sells products that are said to be effective in curing male impotence such as Super Shangai, Strong Testis, Shangai Ultra, Shangai Ultra X, Lady Shangai and Shangai Regular. These herbal supplements are being packed and distributed by Shanghai Distributor Inc. of Puerto Rico.


Laboratory testings indicated that some of these so-called natural supplements contain sildenafil, the active ingredient of Viagras. Some of them contain a compound with a chemical structure similar to that of sildenafil. These chemicals, after thorough scientific study, have proven to have negative side effects, especially to people who are taking drugs for diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and heart disease. These chemicals could interact with nitrates in drugs for these conditions, which was proven to may cause serious health risks.

Eggs are Healthy. Or so We Thought...

A recent study showed that middle-aged men who eats seven or more eggs a week have a higher risk of earlier death. According to the study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, this is because eggs are very rich in cholesterol, which in turn can clog arteries and raise the risk of heart attack and stroke.

Heart attack and stroke has been two of the top perpetrator of male death in the world today.

However, the researchers who did the study warn the public about not consuming eggs at all. They said that eggs, like any other food, are either "good" or "bad" for you, and can be a part of an overall heart-healthy diet. The issue here is the amount of a certain food is consumed by an individual.

The researchers would also like to clarify that they are not saying that egg consumption is not associated with heart attack or stroke. But among the men who became part of this study, 23 per cent suffered heart attack and stroke.

Study Shows More Men Are Using Viagra Without Prescription

A survey presented at San Francisco during the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Society revealed that more and more men are using Viagra and other male-enhancement drugs to cure their sexual disorders without any proper prescription. The initial findings of the study showed that 6 per cent of the respondents reported using ED drugs without consulting a professional medical practitioner. Most of them admitted of getting their drugs from friends, peers and other non-medical sources, including the Internet.

The study involved 234 men aged 18-25 years old and are all, at some point in their lives, had experienced erection problems. Thirteen per cent of the respondents admitted of having difficulty getting and maintaining an erection, while 25 per cent reported that they have lost their erection while putting a condom.

This study just seemed to further manifest the fact that most men are scared or embarrassed in having a condition as such. Many studies have been done and stated that erectile dysfunction is one of the most common disorder among men, and it is also one of the least likely to be treated because of its very personal nature. Most men don't even want to talk to their loved ones, much less to doctors about their problems. This, in turn, have boosted the male-enhancement pill industry over the Internet because drugs are readily available without any contact whatsoever.

But the most shocking part of the study is the fact that men are still very ignorant when it comes to this problem. The study revealed that 29 per cent of the men who admitted to have been using ED drugs really don't have any problems at all, and they said that they are only using these products to "enhance their sexual performance." Nearly two-thirds of those who used ED drugs also reported mixing the drugs with other drugs such as alcohol, marijuana, GHB, methamphetamine and cocaine. The report stated that because of this misinformation that they will have better sexual performance, these malpractice just "permits men in altered states to have risky sex, potentially contributing to unwanted pregnancies and spread of sexually-transmitted diseases."


That is why the researchers advises health care workers to start the conversation about erectile dysfunction and give people better understanding about this disorder and all the possible treatment for it.

Technology Can Kill Our Sex Lives

Just weeks after a New York study reported that there are possible links to having low sperm count on men and their excessive cellular phone use, another survey conducted by the Solutions Research Group now states that technology and the way people today spend big money on them, can eventually kill human sexuality.

According to the group, who conducted the survey on some 25 million Americans, said that people who owns and uses laptops, mobile phones and other gadgets are starting to have what they called "feelings of disorientation and nervousness when they are deprived of Internet or wireless access for a period of time." These feelings of anxiety are in turn, being manifested in their sexual relationship with their partners.

According to the group, 68 per cent of Americans feel this sense of anxiety when they are not jacked into the global mind grid of the Net. These results are published on a report called "Age of Disconnect Anxiety."

It is definitely tough to look forward to, or even enjoy, sex if your are anxious.

Though the group who did the study stated that these results are not conclusive, they still strongly believe that people should have time for their personal lives, including the sexual aspect of it, without using their gadgets and any form of technology to at least minimize their anxiety and between partners.

Your Sex Questions, Answered!

You've heard them millions of time. You yourself asked it more times than that. But just like the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, the answers to our sex quandaries have eluded us many times more than we can count. Maybe it's because of its taboo nature or we are just too embarrass to really make a serious conversation about it but let's all admit it, we want answers that can satisfy us when we ask questions about our sexuality and sex lives.

Is my penis the right size? How long should I last to satisfy my lover? Where exactly is her G-spot? Get ready to be blown away because we have the answers for you.

Penis Talk

Men have always been insecure when it comes to their penis size. I know for a fact that every guy out there experienced discomfort whenever they get inside the locker room to take a shower and change their clothes in front of other guys. There's always the anxiety about being laughed on and teased by the others because your peepee might not measure up to them. Masculinity and male power has always been equated to the size of the penis and it will stay like that for more years to come. And the idea that "the bigger, the better," which is a complete myth by the way according to many studies in past, just adds to the pressure on the male population. So finally, what really is the average size of a guy's penis?

Cold hard fact: the average penis size is between five and six inches, when ERECT! On the flaccid state, it should be around three and a half inches.

Spotting the G-spot

For a very long time, the existence of the G-spot on the female anatomy has been debated and the idea of the vaginal orgasm widely criticized. The G-spot, named after German doctor Ernst Grafenberg who first wrote about this female part, is the erogenous zone in the anterior vaginal wall that triggers the much elusive vaginal orgasm on women. Vaginal orgasms are said to be elusive because they are considered as the more powerful climax for women as compared to clitoral orgasms because it involved penile penetration. And as according to psychologist Sigmund Freud, "if a woman couldn't be satisfied by penetrative sex, something must be wrong with her." So to prove that women are not abnormal just because they can't have orgasms through penetration, we asked where really is the G-spot located?

Cold hard fact: Though there are still no scientific basis for the existence of the G-spot, it is believed to be located inside the front wall of the vagina. It is really not a spot, but more of a zone that is only two-and-a-half to five centimeters in size. If you wanna explore it and try whether it really can induce sexual arousal, feel it inside the vagina. It is a bit of a rough area in there, a bit like a walnut, and is not smooth and silky like the rest of the vaginal wall.

Blowing Off Early

Premature ejaculation is the most common form of sexual dysfunction on men, affecting 20 to 30 per cent of the male population. That is why this concept has been a frequent topic involved in most sex myths. The question of how long can a guy last and how long should he last to satisfy her partner have been thrown more times than a baseball in a baseball game. The fact that the definition of the term itself is a bit blurry adds to the confusion on this topic. There are men who ejaculates within a minute but says that they don't have premature ejaculation problems. Some can last up to 20 minutes but still think they do have problems. So what really right time to be not considered a to not having premature ejaculation?

Cold hard fact: if you want to hear a number, the average time of penetration time for men is around 5.4 minutes. But there is really no exact number that can say how much time does a man need to be able to satisfy his partner. Sex therapist advice men though to be less anxious when having sex to be able to make sure that he is doing it right for his partner. Many techniques have been offered to men so they can manage their anxiety and prolong their time of ejaculation. And contrary to popular belief, distraction or decreasing stimulation won't help either. The way to be able to last longer is by getting used to intense stimulation and just being able to enjoy it.

So there you go, answers to some of your sex questions. I just hope you learn something from this.

Excessive Cellphone Use and Low Sperm Count

To this day and age, mobility is a very important necessity. Because of a very fast-pace life everyone is trying to live now, being able to do things while on the move has been a number commodity today. That is why telecommunication has also been a big industry at the present. And cellular phones has become one of the most important gadget every people should have. You can say that cellphones have been kinda like food, that they are a must-have item.

However, a recent study conducted in New York suggests that excessive cellphone usage may affect the quality of man's sperm. In the said study involving 361 men who regularly visit infertility clinics, an association between their sperm quality and cellphone use has been found. On the average, the longer men spent on their mobile phones, the lower the sperm count is and the greater their percentage of abnormal sperm.

The initial findings of this study add to questions about the potential health effects of cellular phones and other wireless devices. It has been known that past studied that have been done have linked longer cellphone use to a higher risk of brain tumors.

However, the findings that came up from this study are not conclusive. Further studies that will be done is the future mat either further prove this hypothesis or disprove it completely. As of now, the inference just states that heavy cellphone use is associated with a lower semen quality. But this does not mean that cellphones directly affect men's fertility.

Study Shows ED Affects Self-esteem and Ego

A recent study conducted in London showed that erectile dysfunction does have very drastic effects on men suffering such an ailment, which initially affects their sexual capability up to ultimately damaging their self-esteem and ego. According to the study, a third of men suffering erectile dysfunction who took anti-impotence drugs which did not work gave up sex entirely.


The study was done on some 631 men with an average age of 55 and are all suffering erectile dysfunction. All at some point on their lives had taken pills and medication for condition, 30% of which have now stopped taking the drugs.

When the pills did not work for the first time, 68% of the men reported loss of self-esteem, 32% felt depressed and 24% said they believe that their condition are already untreatable.

But the most surprisingly data gathered from this study is that one-third of the sample population did not return to their doctors to try alternative treatments after the failed attempt. According to the study, "these data confirm that men are still reluctant to seek help for their erectile dysfunction and highlight the importance of first-time success on improving aspects of well-being."

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