Gender: Male
Daily drink can bring health benefits - for men
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Moderate drinking reduces the risk of heart disease but the beneficial effects of alcohol seem to work differently in men and women, Danish researchers said on Friday.
They found that for men drinking daily seems to have the biggest positive effect on health while in women the amount of alcohol consumed may have more of an impact.
“The risk of heart disease was lowest among men who drank every day,” said Janne Tolstrup of the National Institute for Public Health in Copenhagen.
Women live the longest, but the men are catching up
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In latest figures released by NSW Health, the life expectancy for babies born in NSW is up to ten years longer than their parents born a generation ago. In NSW between 1973 and 2003, life expectancy at birth steadily increased from 68.6 to 78.6 for males, and from 75.6 to 83.4 for females.
This new data is from the NSW Chief Health Officer’s Report, which is regularly updated with new information online.
Height Loss: Why It Happens and How to Prevent It
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As we age, we experience decreases in everything from hair and hearing to memory and muscle. Height is also on the list. Starting at about age 40, people typically lose about half an inch each decade. Why do we shrink, what are the consequences, and what can we do? The December issue of Harvard Health Letter answers these questions.
Older people need more vitamin D, U.S. group says
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Older Americans need more vitamin D to help strengthen bones than what current guidelines recommend, a U.S. medical group said on Thursday.
Men and women age 50 and older should take about 800 to 1,000 international units of vitamin D each day - more than the 400 to 600 daily units the Institute of Medicine recommends, the American Medical Women’s Association said.
Oppression of women may be killing men
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The tradition of male dominance over women in many societies may be one of the reasons men have a higher death rate, according to UK researchers.
In an analysis of statistics from 51 countries, they concluded that patriarchy—the systematic dominance by men over women—may explain nearly half of the discrepancy between female and male death rates. The greater that the oppression of women was in a given country, the researchers report, the higher was the male death rate at any given age.
