2008 March | Abc of Mens Health

Athletica nervosa, the new lads’ disorder

Craze to build body beautiful
The laddish culture promoted by men’s magazines has spawned a new medical condition: athletica nervosa, or an obsession with exercise.
New research shows that the magazines, whose titillating displays of female flesh were meant to liberate their readers from political correctness, may be trapping them into an unhealthy obsession with their own [...]

March 19, 2008 | Posted in Nutrition | Read More »

Hair loss drug can hide prostate cancer

The popular hair-loss drug Propecia can change the results of a common screen for prostate cancer, the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test, leading to skewed readings that might obscure the presence of disease, a new study found.
Men using Propecia “should be aware that their PSA will be falsely lowered” and that small changes upward could be [...]

March 15, 2008 | Posted in Hair Care | Read More »

Docs: Many men have “Small-Penis Syndrome”

Study: 85% Of Women Are Pleased With Partner’s Penis Size, But 45% of Men Wish Theirs Were Bigger
Eighty-five percent of women are pleased with their partner’s penis proportions — yet many normal men suffer “small-penis syndrome,” urologists report.
Small-penis syndrome is the anxiety of thinking one’s penis is too small — even though it isn’t. It’s [...]

March 7, 2008 | Posted in Health | Read More »

Penis myths debunked

When it comes to penises, length matters more to men than to women, according to a new study that reviews more than 60 years of research and debunks numerous sex myths.
About 90 percent of women actually prefer a wide penis to a long one, according to two studies included in the review. Eighty-five percent of [...]