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How Much Vitamin D Do You Need?
How much vitamin D is enough, and what’s the best way to get your daily dose of the so-called sunshine vitamin? It depends who you ask. I just attended the latest Forum at the Harvard School of Public...
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Beer Bellies Anyone? Waist Measurement Can Determine Risk For Heart Disease
Extra fat that accumulates around the abdomen goes by many names: beer belly, spare tire, love handles, apple shape, middle-age spread, and the more technical “abdominal obesity.” No matter what the...
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Beware Of Potatoes: They May Cause You To Pack On Pounds
Without meaning to, you’ve gained a few pounds over the last few years. How did that happen? Certain foods, especially the humble potato, may be partly to blame. In a fascinating study of 120,000...
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Inspiring Story About A Man Making Changes To Transform His Life
It isn’t easy to get rid of a harmful habit like drinking too much, or to make healthy changes like losing weight and exercising more. Media stories about people who run marathons a year after surgery...
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Harvard Medical School Provides Tips For Improving Bladder Control
I was hiking in the woods recently with a group of women friends when something caught my attention. It wasn’t an interesting bird or plant, but the surprising number of “pit stops” my friends needed...
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Which Is More Important: To Be Thin Or To Be Fit?
These days, most adults are overweight, not active, or both. If you could change just one—become active or lose weight—which would be better? At least for men, being more fit may have a bigger health...
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Prostate Cancer: When Active Surveillance Wins Out Over Immediate Treatment
The word “cancer” strikes fear in everyone who is told they have it. It conjures up images of a fast-moving, life-threatening disease. That isn’t necessarily the case for men with newly diagnosed...
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The Good Intentions of Men’s Health Week Promotion
This week has been proclaimed International Men’s Health Week – the week leading up to and including Father’s Day. And it’s part of what’s more broadly been proclaimed by some as Men’s Health Month....
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Misleading Medical Tweets Could Cause Harm
This is not a lesson about the limitations of 140-character messages on Twitter. Rather, it is a warning about careless Tweets that mischaracterize the real meat of the message in longer stories linked...
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Vaccine For HPV May Prevent More Than Cervical Cancer
Oropharyngeal cancers caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV) are on the rise in the United States since 1984, as changes in sexual habits further the virus’ spread. But the focus of the HPV vaccine...
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