Quitting is not easy. Ask a smoker. Some quit cold turkey but some struggle through the process. If you too have reached the end of your hope, My Health Guardian comes to your rescue. We give you a concentrated step by step guide to quit smoking. Sounds good, isn’t it? Continue reading…   Our expert, Dr. Sajeela Maini, Quit Smoking Specialist at Ganga Ram helps you through the quit smoking resolution. Step by step guide: Pick a stop date when you are relatively relaxed. Make a list of the reasons why you want to quit. Keep the list handy for easy reminder. Make another list of why quitting won’t be easy for you. Throw away all of your tobacco and tobacco reminders. Get

Most men manage their health, usually by the dictum, ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’. This approach puts them on the reactive mode and they have to fight health complications. Before we investigate health complications in men folk, it pays to understand, what’s causing them? Stress causes distress. Stress can affect anyone, but men seem to suffer from it a lot more than women. A little amount of stress is good, because it helps to improve performance. It hurts when it pervades our lives and we start jumping at the slightest provocation. Under stress our bodies release hormones including adrenaline to prepare us for a “fight or flight” response to demanding

Inflaming wine, pernicious to mankind, unnerves the limbs, and dulls the noble mind Homer wrote in Illiad in 850 BC Beer or wine—difficult to decide, isn’t it? Beer—the beloved beverage of men is often downed with a twinge of guilt, as wine has a repute of being more heart friendly. Keep reading to dispel myths and unravel facts. Do it like the French In the year 1819 Irish physician Dr. Samuel Black noticed for the first time French paradox, which soared the popularity of red wine. Apparently French have a low risk of coronary heart disease irrespective of their love for cheese. However, red wine is not the magic bullet for disease prevention. Agreed, red wine does have

For men, muscular chest symbolises masculinity. Getting breasts is extremely embarrassing for men, who often resort to wearing thick shirts to conceal their bulging chest. In desperation they refuse to participate in any activity that requires them to go bare-chested, like swimming. You might be surprised to know that gynecomastia—enlargement of breasts in male is an embarrassing but commonly occurring benign condition. “It is normal for boys to experience some development in their breast tissues in the growing years”, says Dr. Ambrish Mithal, Senior Consultant Endocrinology with Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi. Normally, the problem takes care of itself but becomes a cause of concern

For years biological clock ticked only for women. They had to carve a career and plan a family almost simultaneously. Once the clock struck thirty family and friends made her believe that conception is no longer going to happen, but men were absolved of all such responsibilities. Like all good things in life this has come to an end too. Men can no longer be smug with satisfaction that they can drink and paint the town red, smoke like coal trains, allow belly to bulge, years to go without any effect on their fertility or their future offspring. How late is too late A new landmark study has found that like women, men’s age plays a key role in a couple’s chances of having a

These days the six-pack-abs craze has swept the country. If you too have geared up to get the washboard abs, let’s investigate the process. Building abs Believe it or not, we all are born with six-pack-abs but for most of us they sleep under the layers of fat. Hence, weight loss, in this case fat is crucial to gain six-pack-abdomen. Your exercise schedule should include resistance training to build the muscle and aerobic activity to shed body fat. “The hugest myth to which many folks subscribe to is that umpteen abdominal crunches everyday will yield six-pack-look, which is far from truth. Muscle size increases with temporary muscle failure at 10-12 repetitions. If you do even one

Men do not visit doctors unless their health conditions ordain them to do so. Not only this approach is reactive but also can harm your health. A better way would be to get your health screenings done periodically to gauge your health status. Also this will allow an opportunity to nip any health complication in bud. We tell you which health tests should be done when— 1. High blood pressure check—Hypertension is a silent killer and it doesn’t reveal of symptoms until too late. On a routine visit to doctor avail yourself of the opportunity to get a BP check once you are thirty plus. You can start this early if your parents have high blood pressure. “Readings more than 120/80 mean

Nearly all men undergo this. May be stress is to blame, wonders spouse. An occasional episode is ok, but dissatisfaction begins when time and again, sexual encounters result in premature ejaculation (PE). And, like all issues related to sexuality, several myths and misnomers are attached to this one too. Before we delve in the subject, let us define what constitutes PE? Varying definitions surround PE, ranging from reduced number of thrusts, ejaculating before partner achieves orgasm to attaining climax in flat two minutes. However, these definitions are flawed, as most men climax within two minutes of penetration says a survey done by Alfred Kingsey, father of sexology, in 1950. A

“My father chewed tobacco, the leafy kind with limejuice. Now he drinks his food with a straw because oral cancer has wrecked his mouth”, says Arpana Sarin about her 58-year-old dad. According to World Health Organization (WHO) profiles, India has one of the highest rates of oral cancer in the world and rates are still increasing. This disproportionate incidence of oral cancer has been related to the high proportion of tobacco chewers, a habit unique to Indians. “Smokeless or “spit” tobacco contains over 2,000 chemicals, many of which have been directly related to causing cancer. These include nitrosamines, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and radiation-emitting

  Viagra was a revolution waiting to happen. Ten-years ago, when the US food and drug administration first approved of Viagra, no one thought that it would go on to become the largest selling drugs in the world and bring in billions in money for Pfizer, the company that introduced it. Competitors like GlaxoSmithKline and Bayer came up with Levitra, and El Lilly and ICOS came up with Cialis. But, Viagra still remains the leader. The latest update on this blue pill is that it has also become popular with sportsmen as a performance-enhancing drug prompting an investigation by the World Anti-Doping Agency. But is Viagra for any man suffering from impotence? Just as important, here’s