4.24.2007

Health Blog : The Trouble With Men

"The Trouble With Men
Posted by Jacob Goldstein

Men at any age are 40% more likely to die than women. They have more abdominal fat (the bad kind) and less HDL cholesterol (the good kind) than women. Men are also far less likely to visit a doctor regularly. “Most of the time, when a man shows up in my office it’s because a woman sent him,” Benjamin Brewer writes today in his online column, the Doctor’s Office. “I think that’s why married guys live longer.”"