Showing posts with label health myths. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health myths. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

13 Health Tips: The Expert Advice Turning Received Wisdom on Its Head

These thirteen tips for better health are simple, easy to do, and can make a big difference in your well-being.
Making tiny changes to your diet can have a dramatic impact on your health, experts from Oxford and Liverpool universities have found. It is estimated 20,000 lives a year could be saved if Britons ate one gram of salt fewer a day, an extra piece of fruit and less saturated fat. Top experts were asked for simple tweaks to boost your health... Read more

Monday, March 16, 2009

Top 10 Men's Health Myths.... Debunked

Is Viagra the answer to erectile dysfunction? Do Well Man clinics make a difference? Men's health advice can be downright useless, says Dr Keith Hopcroft. He debunks the top ten men's health myths.
1. Well Man clinics are a good idea

WHAT ARE THEY? These are clinics, run by GPs and private companies, that offer health once-overs for men, checking their hearts, weight and all the bits that women don’t have.

WHO SAYS THEY’RE A GOOD IDEA? Men’s health enthusiasts with too much time on their hands and private screening companies trying to drum up business.

HOW WRONG IS IT? Totally, and will remain so until the average unhealthy male has a lobotomy.

GIVE ME THE FACTS The main problem is that Well Man Clinics attract only well men. Read more

 
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