News and Features Related to Men's Health
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Male Enhancement: Is It Worth a Try?
Our email inboxes fill up every day with advertisements for pills, ointments, supplements, and contraptions aimed at enhancing penis size, sexual stamina, or libido. It's a testimony to men's abiding insecurities about sexual performance. The question is, do any of these "male enhancement" technique
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Workplace Stress and Your Health
If you have a cruel boss or rotten co-workers, beware. It may not be just your job that's on the line. Clearly, a work environment that includes insults, back stabbing and belittling can erode an employee's morale. What's less understood is that such a toxic work atmosphere can also lead to deterior
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Biking and Erectile Dysfunction: A Real Risk?
For men, the health benefits of bicycling may involve a troublesome trade-off. While riding a bicycle burns calories and improves cardiovascular fitness, too many hours on a bicycle saddle can compress the artery and vital nerves leading to the penis. The result? A risk of numbness, pain, and erecti
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How to Eat
By Mehmet Oz, M.D. & Michael Roizen, M.D. You're staring at the fridge. Or the pantry, or the menu. How do you make the right choice? By remembering a few simple rules. Breakfast The point of breakfast is twofold. First, it replenishes the calories you've burned and eliminates the hunger you've buil
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Forget About Your Stomach
By Mehmet Oz, M.D., and Michael Roizen, M.D. New research about how we store fat will help you keep your hands off the muffins. When we think about losing weight, most of us focus on two things: the food we eat and the stomach where it ends up. The first part makes sense. But the second part is misg
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Random Knowledge: Twinkies!
By Anya Yurchyshyn Twinkies are as amazingly good as they are disgusting. But do you know why? Twinkies are as amazingly good as they are disgusting. But do you know why? We've picked a few facts from Twinkie, Deconstructed (Hudson Street Press, $24), by Steven Ettlinger. Phosphorus, part of a key T
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A Little Gratitude
By Tom Chiarella How to change the way the world sees you, one thank-you note at a time. I don't really care when people say thanks. Open a door. Thanks. Hand someone a stapler. Thanks. Push a button on an elevator. Thanks. That's just chatter. Meaningless interaction. Broadly speaking, hearing than
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Ask Dr. Oz: Why Am I Fatter When I'm Stressed?
By Mehmet C. Oz, M.D. Because your body thinks you're about to starve. Thousands of years ago, hunger was a caveman's primary source of anxiety. When food became scarce, his body coped with the resultant stress by releasing steroids, which were absorbed by his omentum — a fat reservoir that hangs li
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Sexual Foreplay: What’s in It for Men?
Dates that end with lovemaking often begin with dining out, so that the meal itself can be seen as a form of sexual foreplay -- in more ways than one. How many times has this happened to you: You take your woman out to dinner at a nice restaurant. The waiter takes your drink orders and tells you of
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Don’t Be a Home Improvement Disaster
You walk into Home Depot or Lowe's to pick up a lightbulb. Instead, you leave with some new flooring, a circular saw, a framing square, and big ideas about re-tiling your kitchen. The problem? You've never done anything more than change a lightbulb by yourself. Growing numbers of Americans are tackl
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