men's sex life

Your love life shouldn't have an expiration date. If you find your interest in sex waning as you get older, you may need to explore some more creative ways to engage with your mate.

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Why Your Sex Drive Wanes With Age

There's no doubt about it: As time passes, your desire for sex, and your physical responses, may change. "As our bodies age, our sex drive hormones decrease, the blood flow to the genitals is slower, we may be experiencing aches and pains, and various medications may interfere with sexual arousal and orgasm," says ageless sexuality advocate Joan Price, MA, who is the author of Naked at Our Age: Talking Out Loud about Senior Sex and Better Than I Ever Expected:

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Men's Guide To Eating Well......

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As men age, their diets can have a significant impact on their health and well-being. And while the foods they choose

 don’t have to be all that different from the foods women eat, men do have some specific nutritional needs. By following these guidelines from Katherine Zeratsky, a registered dietician with the Mayo Clinic, men can get the most out of every bite they eat:

1. Go Easy on the Red Meat. Men may want to cut down on meat for several reasons. First of all, meat can be high in iron. Men don’t need as much iron as women and children, "Yet for a majority of men, a meal is not complete unless it has a piece of meat," notes Zeratsky, who advises men to become more aware of how much iron their diets contain. If they are already getting enough in their meals, men should avoid taking multivitamins with additional iron, since too much of a good thing for males can actually be damaging.

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maintaining healthy glucose

Maintaining healthy blood glucose (sugar) levels is the cornerstone of diabetes management. However, data increasingly shows that for diabetes patients 65 and older, aiming for very low daily blood sugars or A1C (average blood glucose over several months) levels may not provide benefits, and may even cause harm.

As the authors of a JAMA Internal Medicine study put it, "Older persons, particularly those with complex medical problems, may derive less benefit from intensive strategies to lower glucose levels and are more susceptible to hypoglycemia [low blood sugar] and its consequences than younger, healthier persons."

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NUTRITION

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Nutrition is a branch of biochemistry that is concerned with the components of food and the processes they undergo to supply the body with energy and nourishment. It quantitatively determines how much of these components or nutrients are contributed by what food and the effect of their deficiency, low or excess supply, on the body.

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HOW TO GAIN WEIGHT

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As there are millions of people struggling to lose weight, so also are millions of people striving to gain weight. Being too fat or too thin are extreme features and people just want to maintain a fit and healthy average weight.

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WHAT IS FOOD

Food can be biochemically defined as any plant or animal, or a product of plan or animal, or any combination of two, either in solid or liquid form. Which when prepared and eaten in a specified way, is not poisonous but is digested into the body to supply certain chemical substances, such as carbohydrates, protein, fat, vitamins and minerals, which have the ability to perform any or all of the following functions:

• Provision of energy for the maintenance of the body’s internal mechanism and for the performance of physical activities.
• Provision of biochemical material for growth, maintenance, repair and reproduction.
• Provision of biocatalyst and other substances required of metabolic activities and good health.

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