This will tie in with my other articles regarding health and fitness from the male perspective .
I was just reading about a UK footballer who contracted advanced testicular cancer based on not paying attention to a lump on his testicles 9 months before his diagnosis.

Choose Right:
Choosing the correct size backpack is the most important step to safe backpack use.
Tip…Bring a friend to help you measure your backpack properly.
Pack Right:
The maximum weight of the loaded backpack should not exceed 15% of your body weight, so pack only what is needed.
Tip…If the backpack forces the wearer to bend forward to carry, it’s overloaded.

Patient goes public after successfully getting off seven antidepressants
In an effort to help others with similar problems, Wendell MacRae, a patient formerly suffering from depression is going public with his personal saga on how he was able to get off seven antidepressant medications.

By Dr. David Mruz
The throbbing… pounding… sensation of a splitting headache is an all too accepted condition for millions of people each day. Some suffer with headaches several times a month, others even more often. A headache can be a distraction that affects your job and your family life. HEADACHES are not a normal condition.
Many people resort to medication to temporarily dull the pain. Unfortunately, relief is often fleeting, and the cycle returns again and again. It seems no matter how many pills are taken, if the cause of the …

Chiropractic care can be the key to detecting the cause of your problem. If detected early enough, Chiropractic adjustments can often return the joint to its normal position, releasing the pressure on the nerve and eliminating the Nerve Impingement Syndrome.

I settled in for a long plane ride from Canada to Europe to attend my brother’s wedding. The flight attendant instructed us on seat belt use, emergency exits, and oxygen masks. She reminded us that it was important to take care of our own needs first, before helping the person next to us – whether a small child, elderly parent, or someone struggling with their mask. The explanation was simple. We are no good to anyone else if we don’t take care of our needs first…if we pass out before …

Do you know what the #1 vegetable in the American diet is? Potatoes. That’s right. And how do we most often eat potatoes? As french fries. You got it.
No wonder we as a country are overweight, sick and tired. Not to knock the potato, but there are lots of wonderful vegetables to fill our plates with that give us more nourishment and energy than french fries ever could.

We all live in a world of stressful events and it depends on how you deal with those events. We can blame the lack of control we now have over our livelihood, we can blame the economy, natural disasters, diseases or just people. So then what is the best way to deal with all those stressors. That would be the question of the day.

Springtime means the start of little league games, gardening, long walks with your dog, and for at least one in five Americans, itchy watery eyes, sneezes, runny noses, swelling, nasal congestion and a slew of other allergy related symptoms. But before you start pointing fingers at pollen, grass, weeds and molds for bringing on these maladies, take a look at your immune system.

When Washington physician Scott Taylor applied for life insurance, he didn’t consider himself unhealthy. The insurance company, however, did: Taylor could not receive the preferred rate because his weight was “slightly heavier than expected” for his height. It was a wake-up call. Taylor rallied friends who also had weight to lose, and the Big Daddy Club (http://www.bigdaddyclub.com) was born.