Changing your lifestyle - particularly stopping smoking if you do - and controlling risk factors such as high blood pressure and high cholesterol can significantly reduce this risk.

How to prevent cardiovascular disease include:

- Stop smoking
-Increase physical activity: 30 minutes of physical activity a day
- Modify diet: a healthy, balanced diet including five portions of fruit and vegetables a day
- Proper body weight for your frame: maintaining a healthy weight
- Reduce alcohol consumption
- Blood pressure and cholesterol level checked and treated if necessary
-Reducing stress levels
These lifestyle changes may also reduce the risk of other diseases such as lung cancer and diabetes.

Prostate Cancer

Prostate Problems Disorders

Benign prostate hyperplasia (BHP): BHP is the medical term for an enlarged prostate. Enlargement can cause problems with prostate function that make it difficult to urinate. Prostate cancer: Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in men. Since early diagnosis improves treatment success, knowing the signs of this disease is critical. Prostatitis: Prostatitis is a prostate disorder caused by an infection. The infection can be acute or chronic.

Testicular Cancer

Symptoms: Testicular Cancer

Abnormal development of breast tissue
Enlargement or swelling restricted to only one testicle
Lump in one of the testicles
Pain in the testicles, groin, lower back or abdomen.

Preventing Cancer

¦Don't smoke. Using any type of tobacco puts you on a collision course with cancer. Avoiding exposure to secondhand smoke counts, too.
¦Maintain a healthy weight. Losing excess pounds — and keeping them off — may lower the risk of various types of cancer.
¦Get moving. In addition to helping you control your weight, physical activity on its own may lower the risk of certain types of cancer.
¦Eat plenty of fruits and vegetables. Although making healthy selections at the grocery store and at mealtime can't guarantee cancer prevention, it may help reduce your risk.
¦Limit alcohol. If you choose to drink alcohol, do so only in moderation. The risk of various types of cancer — including cancer of the colon, lung, kidney and liver — increases with the amount of alcohol you drink and the length of time you've been drinking regularly.
¦Take early detection seriously. Consult your doctor for regular cancer screenings.

Hypertension High Blood Pressure

How to prevent High Blood Pressure

Lose excess weight.

Choose a diet that includes plenty of fruits and vegetables. Keep total fat low and avoid foods that are high in saturated fats and cholesterol. Having a healthy heart will help prevent blood pressure.

- Reduce Salt intake.

Salt and sodium can increase blood pressure, so it’s important to read food labels. The U.S. guidelines suggest limiting sodium intake to no more than 2,400 mg, or about 1 teaspoon of salt each day. If you eat canned, processed, and convenience foods, buy the brands that are lower in sodium. If you salt your food at the table, try using less, or none. It may take a little while to get used to the new flavors, but you may find that food tastes better when you use less salt. Fast food can contain a lot of sodium, so if you eat fast food choose items that are lower in salt and sodium. Reducing your salt intake will help to prevent high blood pressure. - Drink alcohol in moderation.

The U.S. guidelines recommend that men have no more than 2 drinks per day, and women have no more than one alcoholic beverage per day. -.Increase your physical activity exercise.

Exercise is a key factor in preventing high blood pressure. If you get very little exercise now, start slowly and work your way up to at least 30 minutes of a moderate-level activity, such as brisk walking or bicycling, each day. If time is a factor, you’ll still benefit by breaking the 30 minute daily exercise periods into 10 or 15 minute sessions.

- Stop smoking.

Research shows that smoking increases your chances of developing a heart disease, stroke, stroke, peripheral arterial disease, and several forms of cancer.

Chronic lower respiratory diseases

Chronic lower respiratory diseases are diseases that affect the lungs. The most deadly of these is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which makes it hard to breathe. COPD includes two main illnesses:

•Emphysema (em-fuh-ZEE-muh) — If you have emphysema, some of the air sacs in your lungs are damaged, making it hard for your body to get the oxygen it needs.
•Chronic bronchitis (brong-KEYE-tuhss) — If you have chronic bronchitis, the lining of the lungs' airways are red and swollen. Over time, the airways become narrow and partly clogged with mucus that cannot be cleared.
Cigarette smoking is the main cause of COPD. If you smoke, you are 12 times as likely to die of COPD as men who have never smoked. Emphysema and chronic bronchitis also are strongly associated with lung cancer.

How to prevent Respiratory Disease

Diabetes - Mens Health

Preventing Diabetes

In one study, people who ate breakfast were 35 to 50 per cent less likely to be overweight or have insulin resistance than breakfast skippers. What's going on? An overnight fast puts your body into 'starvation mode'. If you don't eat breakfast, your liver churns out stored glucose to keep your blood sugar levels up. At the same time, skipping breakfast flips biochemical switches that reduce the body's response to insulin. And it raises levels of an appetite-stimulating hormone called ghrelin so you want to eat more all day long. Do this often enough, and you gain weight, say scientists from Children's Hospital Boston in the US.

Avoid eating bagels (too many carbohydrates) or a shop-bought muffin (too many kilojoules and hydrogenated oils) for breakfast. Instead, pour yourself a bowl of muesli or high-fibre cereal with skim milk and add some berries on top for good measure. One Canadian study from the University of Toronto looked at people with prediabetes and found that high-fibre cereals made their cells 'listen' better to insulin than lower-fibre ones. Yogurt with fresh berries is also a good breakfast choice.

If you're depressed, get help

If you're depressed, you're much less likely to exercise and eat well. But the health dangers don't end there. US scientists from Stanford University think that depression itself alters body chemistry in profound ways that spell trouble for anyone at risk for diabetes. Rates of insulin resistance were 23 percent higher among depressed women than among women who weren't depressed, regardless of body weight, exercise habits or age.

Drop Excess Weight

Excess weight is the number one reason adults and children are at higher risk for Type 2 diabetes now than ever before. Gaining weight can pack excess fat around internal organs at your midsection—especially if you're stressed out on a regular basis (stress hormones can send extra fat to the belly). New research shows that this dangerous abdominal fat sends out chemical signals that desensitise cells throughout your body to insulin, the hormone that persuades cells to absorb blood sugar. Insulin resistance is the first step on the path to Type 2 diabetes.

In a landmark clinical trial that followed 3234 people with prediabetes for three years, those who lost just 7 percent of their body weight (5 kg if you now weigh 70 kg) lowered their diabetes risk by 58 percent. In fact, weight loss worked better than insulin-sensitising diabetes medications at cutting the odds of diabetes.

A brisk cardio workout three to five times a week can get rid of belly fat better than dieting, say US researchers at Syracuse University. Brisk walking for 30 minutes each day also works.

Eat Plenty of Fruits and Vegies

And factor in three servings of whole grains, too. Following a low-glycaemic diet packed with fresh fruit and vegetables and whole grains‚ and cutting back on white bread, white rice, foods made with white flour, and sweets helps keeps blood sugar low and steady. Research shows it also redresses chronic low-grade inflammation in the body, which interferes with the action of insulin and the absorption of blood sugar by cells.

In a recent study of 486 women, Harvard School of Public Health researchers found that those who ate the most fruit were 34 percent less likely to have metabolic syndrome, a cluster of risk factors, including insulin resistance, that predispose a person to diabetes. Women who ate the most vegetables cut their risk of metabolic syndrome by 30 per cent. Meanwhile, German researchers who followed 25,067 women and men for seven years recently found that those who got the most fibre from whole grains were 27 per cent less likely to develop diabetes than those who got the least.

Does regular drive-through dining lead to diabetes? When US researchers at the University of Minnesota tracked the eating habits and health of 9,514 people aged between 45 and 64 for up to 10 years, they discovered that those who ate two serves of red meat (beef patties in hamburgers) a week were 26 percent more likely to wind up with metabolic syndrome. A daily helping of fried foods raised it another 10 to 25 per cent. These foods are high in saturated and trans fats, which have been linked to diabetes.

Each bite of a burger and each smear of butter you consume is full of saturated fat. These fats not only clog arteries, they also increase insulin resistance, which propels you down the path to genuine diabetes. Saturated fats also trigger inflammation, which is toxic to cells, including those that handle blood sugar. Fish and olive oil have the exact opposite effect and could actually lower your diabetes risk. The same goes for nuts (including peanuts) and canola oil.

Of course, you don't want to overdo even these good fats, which are high in kilojoules. Cutting total fat intake as well as saturated fat helped participants in the US Diabetes Prevention Program study cut their diabetes risk. Participants limited their intake of saturated fat to 7 per cent of total kilojoules a day, which is about the amount in 60 g of cheese plus 5 g of butter if you eat 8400 kilojoules a day.

Eliminate pop soda sugar drinks

The Body Cries for Water

Start quenching your thirst with water

, soda water (with a squeeze of lemon or lime), unsweetened tea or skim milk instead of soft drinks, fruit juice drinks, coffee or sweetened iced-tea drinks.

A single daily serving of soft drink raised the risk of metabolic syndrome (described above) by a staggering 44 percent in a headline-grabbing study from Boston University School of Medicine in the US. Experts have many theories as to why this is. It could simply be all those extra kilojoules in soft drinks and other sugary drinks or in the high-fat, high-kilojoule foods we tend to pair them with (hot chips and pizza). Experts are also finding that drinking even a single soft drink a day is associated with being overweight, perhaps because the kilojoules in drinks don't register in our brains, so we don't compensate for them by eating less food.

Another possible culprit is high-fructose corn syrup. It's essentially sugar in liquid form, except that for technical chemical reasons, some experts believe it's more likely to lead to insulin resistance.

For a healthier thirst quencher, drop several tea bags (black, green or herbal) into a jug filled with water and refrigerate overnight before drinking. And don't rule out a glass of skim milk. The calcium, vitamin D and other minerals in dairy foods may be the reason that getting at least one serve of low-fat or skim milk (or yogurt or cheese) a day lowered metabolic syndrome risk by up to 62 per cent in one particular UK study.

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Exercise helps protect against diabetes by transporting blood sugar into fuel-hungry muscle cells and making cells more sensitive to insulin. A Harvard study of 40,000 women found that 30 minutes a day of brisk walking, plus a TV limit of 10 hours per week, cut diabetes risk by 43 percent. If you get bored walking, sign up for an aerobics class, take up bowling, gather your children or grandchildren for a bushwalk, or just put on some music and dance.

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