100 secrets to a long life tip #42


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Preventative Care

In addition to a healthy diet and regular exercise, your body requires general maintenance and preventative medicine. The tips below will help you fend off diseases, conditions and other physical problems

If you are a male over the age of 50, schedule an annual prostate exam. African Americans or those with a family history of prostate cancer should start the exams at a younger age.

Discuss: We do have male members that can add by family history or direct experience to this tip. Gents, please contribute. My FIL passed away with prostrate cancer. My Dh goes to get a yearly. How about you? What about Saw Palmetto? Just read a 2006 scientific study that 225 men with an enlarged prostrate found that those were no better relieved of symptoms using Saw Palmetto than a placebo. The article suggests for BPH that the herbal supplement PYGEUM, however, has shown promising results. Just oredered him some from Puritan's Pride.