Sexual ones, firstly

Jun 9, 2007 11:00 GMT  ·  By

This is the way men are: they take care of their car more than of their health. That's why men die earlier than women: their lifespan is 7 years lower than that of the females.

In the western world, 70 % of men aged 30-50 are overweight and 40 % are stressed. These are the 8 factors threatening men's life in the western countries:

1.Prostate cancer. It is not linked to diseases, lifestyles, or alimentation, but to age and heredity. 80 % of the eighty-year-old men have prostate cancer, even if they die of other condition.

Penis cancer, almost inexistent, is determined by lack of hygiene and sexual promiscuity. Bladder cancer is triggered by smoking or contact with anilines (colorants) and petroleum.

Impotence is linked to the age, smoking and drinking, psychological issues and diseases (especially those affecting the blood vessels, like diabetes and hypertension). If there are cases in the family, prostate cancer checks must be made after 50, when the tumor can be detected in initial stages and cured completely.

2.Lung cancer. It is boosted by smoking, like other respiratory conditions (emphysema or chronic bronquitis), but it also can be hereditary or determined by the contact with toxic compounds at work. Combined with alcohol, smoking induces larynx cancer. In one year after quitting smoking, the risk of cancer decreases significantly.

3.Sleep apnea. The high incidence of sleep apnea amongst men is due to the fat accumulation around their necks when they increase weight. As muscular tone decreases while sleeping, the respiratory ways get narrower due to the fat pressure and cannot let the air pass. There are also hormonal factors. Sleep apnea affects the quality of the sleep, turning the person sleepy and irritable during the day, with high risk for traffic accidents.

There are also cardiovascular damages. If during sleeping, there are more respiratory pauses of over 10 seconds, at least 10 times per hour, apnea is present. Obesity must be fought by diet and exercising. In severe cases, special masks that introduce the air to the respiratory paths must be used.

4.Hearth. Men are more predisposed to hearth failure than women due to the testosterone. Hearth health is affected by high cholesterol, smoking, alcohol, overweight, hypertension, diabetes but also heredity.

Only minor consume of red wine is recommended. Saturated fats (sausages, pork, diary products) must be replaced by vegetables, greens, fish and some red meat. Light exercising like walking rapidly one hour daily strengthens the hearth.

5.Liver cancer. 90 % of the cases are due to drinking and infection with hepatitis virus C. 10 % are determined by infection with hepatitis virus B or hereditary metabolic conditions. Also high pills intake, risky sexual behavior and hereditary factors count.

There is also autoimmune chronic hepatitis and non ethylic steatohepatitis, which produces lesion similar to the alcohol-produced ones in abstinent persons, due to the mixture of obesity, diabetes and fat alterations in the plasm, linked to the hyper-caloric diets and sedentary life.

Moderate alcohol consume and vaccine against hepatitis virus B always help.

6.Depression. Besides medical (depressive disorders, alcoholism, or chronic painful diseases) and social causes (old age, loneliness, lack of family support, stressing events) causes, the highest factor that leads to suicide in men is linked to how men experience personal difficulties.

More rigid, inflexible, introverted and impulsive than a woman, when a man faces a severe difficulty, he can choose the evasive way of acting and commit suicide. Man does not stand loneliness or matrimonial separation the way a woman does and usually he does not speak about his problems, so he does not free himself from his sufferance.

Moreover, he lives with more stress and anguish from his work activity, generating more health conditions and anxiety states. Men should communicate more and have a life project that can be adjusted to his reality. If it is shared, it's better. And he must assume more coherently the adaptation to other proposals which the others want to develop.

7.Obesity. Women usually accumulate fat on the hips, while men in the abdomen, which is more dangerous, as this is associated with metabolic and respiratory complications: diabetes, apnea, hypertension, vascular conditions and others.

Men must adopt healthy diets, exercise, avoid stress linked to the abdominal fat and reject miraculous diets. Family should support him in this.

Men with over 108 cm (3.5 ft) around the waist should pay a visit to a doctor to determine his caloric expense and know the disposition of his body fat.

8.Stroke. It is linked to heredity, hypertension, diabetes, fat metabolism diseases and chronic headaches.