JUST TAKE FIVE
A Guy’s Guide to Staying
Vitally Healthy by Judith Fertig
A
ncient prophets understood the wisdom of living by the adage, “Eat, drink and be merry,” and
it still rings true today. Today’s health experts further add, “get moving” and “see your doctor at least once a year.” Adopting this short, easy-to-do list of habits as a guiding principle can be key to a healthier and happier life, and add more years to accomplish your bucket list. The good news about male longevity is that much of it is under our control. Dr. Robert Butler, gerontologist,
psychiatrist and author of The Longev- ity Prescription: The 8 Proven Keys to a Long, Healthy Life, received a Pulitzer Prize for his work on aging. A found- ing director of the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health, he also started the nation’s first department of geriatrics, at Mount Sinai
School of Medicine, in New York City. In his early 80s, Butler was still regular- ly walking around Central Park before putting in 60-hour weeks doing work he loved as head of International Longevity Center–USA (ilcusa. org).
Butler maintained that genes account for only 25 percent of our individual health and said, “Our environ- ment and personal behaviors account for the rest.” For him, it was simple things like welcome hugs and laughter that added pleasure and length to life. Of course, learning something new helps the brain stay ac- tive. Butler lived the essence of active right up until his passing a year ago at age 83.
A Simple Prescription
So, what are men 30 Broward County, Florida
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up against today? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Preven- tion (
cdc.gov), the leading causes of death for men are heart disease; cancer (especially prostate); injuries; chronic lower respiratory diseases; stroke; dia- betes; suicide; influenza and pneumo- nia; kidney disease; and Alzheimer’s disease. But men can take a preventive approach to these conditions. Here are five proactive, enjoyable ways that work:
EAT. The simple everyday act of healthy eating can have long-term, ho- listic benefits for not only overall health and weight management, but for pre- venting prostate cancer. In 2010, nearly 218,000 men in the United States were diagnosed with prostate cancer, a largely curable challenge when caught in its early stages, according to the American Cancer Society. But why not eat well to prevent potential cancer cells from becoming a bigger problem?
“All of us have microscop- ic cancers growing in our bodies all the time,” says Dr. William Li, founder and head of The Angiogenesis Foundation, in Cambridge, Massachusetts (
angio.org and the user-friendly Eat-
ToDefeat.org). Angiogenesis is the process our bodies use
to grow blood vessels, he says, a natural process that some- times gets hijacked by cancer cells. “A microscopic tu- mor can grow up to 16,000 times its original size in as little as two weeks,” explains Li, “but new, groundbreak- ing research from The
Angiogenesis Foundation proposes that
you can stop cancer before it begins to grow.” Li calls this new pre- ventive approach
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