The Harvard Medical School Guide to Men's Health is the ultimate in men's health information, assembled into a single volume containing a quarter-century's worth of hard-won knowledge about men's health — knowledge that men need to lead longer, healthier, more vigorous lives. With results taken from Harvard studies of more than 96,000 men, this all-in-one men's health book features the best and most current information on the behaviors, foods, and preventative activities that make — and keep — men healthy.

Men's Health Information

In Part I, author Harvey B. Simon, M.D., puts men in the best position to evaluate breaking news about health risks and scientific breakthroughs. Through sections devoted to hormones, testosterone and the life cycle, reproductive anatomy, metabolism, muscles, and bones, Dr. Simon reviews the unique health needs of men and explains why women live longer than men, and how men can catch up. Then, describing the three leading causes of death in American men - coronary artery disease, stroke, and cancer - he discusses the risk factors involved and preventive measures that can be taken for each.

What keeps men healthy? In Part II, Dr. Simon answers that question and includes a program for staying well, based on diet, exercise, diet supplements, and behavior modification, with information on newsworthy developments.

Then, discussing what can go wrong, Dr. Simon zeroes in on male-specific diseases - including prostate disease, erectile dysfunction, and kidney problems - and others that affect men differently than women.

"Dr. Simon's men's health guide reads like a novel," enthuses David S. Rosenthal, M.D., past President of the American Cancer Society. "It is logical, it is scientific and it poses all of the questions men should ask or are asking. Dr. Simon combines science with humor and wit. ...Every man needs to read this book."

Harvey B. Simon, M.D. is a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

The Harvard Medical School Guide to Men's Health (Simon & Schuster Free Press) is available from wherever books are sold.