Hi everyone this is Monica Reinagle the nutrition diva here with your quick and dirty

tips for eating well and feeling fabulous Father's Day is this weekend. And that means this is Men's Health Week, an annual

observation that seeks to heighten the awareness of preventable health problems, promote

healthy living, and encourage early detection and treatment of disease among men and boys.

It occurs to me I've never dedicated the podcast to nutrition and prostate health,

so this seems like a perfect time to set that right.

And now back to our discussion of men's health and prostate health in particular.

The prostate is of course a gland that only men have. It's a small

donut-shaped organ that encircles the urethra and that's where problems often

begin. As men get older, the prostate often gets enlarged and this can

interfere with the normal flow of urine. If you watch the evening news or a

weekend sports broadcast or any other program that's likely to attract middle-aged male

viewers, you'll probably see lots of ads for drugs to treat benign prostate inflammation

and urinary problems.

Let's just say that among men of a certain age, it's a very common issue.

The good news is that a healthy diet and lifestyle can really make a difference here. In fact, studies suggest that

good nutrition can produce results on par with those drugs you see advertised, only with no side effects.

Well, no adverse side effects, I should say.

The strategies I'm about to give

have plenty of positive side effects.

The first one is to be physically active.

There's a strong inverse association between the amount of exercise you get

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