Tag Archive for: men’s health

Why You Need Your Seven

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Green leafy vegetables and fruit convey health benefits to eyes and men’s sexual function. Why? It all comes down to blood flow and specifically, how those foods help blood vessels.

Nitrates cause dilation of blood vessels, especially the minute blood vessels in the heart, the eyes, and other organs, exactly when we need it most. Most people associate nitrates with processed meats, but green leafy vegetables and root vegetables such as beets have a far greater nitrate content without dragging along a lot of fat and sodium. The nitrates provide the raw materials that help the nitric oxide system . . .

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Fruit Intake and Men’s Health

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On Monday I talked about a recent study on vegetables and glaucoma. Today the subject is fruit intake and men’s health, specifically, the relationship between eating certain types of fruit and erectile dysfunction. Wonder why I didn’t put that in the title? Because it would have ended in up in your spam folder. But this isn’t about inanimate objects such as computer programs and how they evaluate subject lines, it’s about phytonutrients.

Researchers again examined the data from the Healthcare Professionals Follow-up Study. This time, they examined the relationship between the specific phytonutrient intake typically . . .

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Breast Cancer: A Man’s Story

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We usually think of breast cancer as a woman’s disease. For the most part, that’s true, but men get breast cancer as well. An estimated 2,360 or about 1% of all the diagnosed new cases of invasive breast cancer were estimated to be found in men in 2014. We’re more aware of breast cancer in men after some famous men talked about their experience with the disease: Edward Brooke, former U.S. Senator for Massachusetts; Peter Criss, Kiss drummer; Ernie Green, former NFL football player; Rod Roddy, announcer for The Price is Right, and Richard Roundtree . . .

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