Health For HimThe men guide to fitness, workouts, weight loss, health, nutrition and muscle building

To all you dads out there: It is time to get your butts in shape and start to exercise.

Males are at a higher risk for the majority of lifestyle-related diseases. Things like cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes affect men to a larger extent than women.

There are numerous potential reasons for this, but the bottom line is that men still have control over the top conditions that are killing them.

If your dad is not making exercise the priority he should, tell him how to do it and why it is so important to you.

I always remember how my dad told me he quit smoking almost 40 years ago.

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In October 2009, medical marijuana advocates celebrated a U.S. Department of Justice memo declaring that federal authorities wouldn’t target the legal use of medicinal pot in states where it is permitted.

The memo from Deputy U.S. Attorney General David Ogden was credited with accelerating a California medical marijuana boom, including a proliferation of dispensaries that now handle more than $1 billion in pot transactions.

But last month brought a new memo from another deputy attorney general, James Cole. And this time, it is stirring industry fears of federal raids on pot dispensaries and sweeping crackdowns on large-scale medical pot cultivation.

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Today’s justifications are flimsy, arbitrary, and ad hoc. Resistance is grounded in reason and common sense.

There’s a movement in San Francisco to ban routine infant male circumcision. It’s merely a matter of having enough signatures, and the measure will make it to ballot for a vote in November 2011.

No medical necessity

The prevailing attitude is that parents need to weigh the pros and cons and decide what’s right for their son. But the very act of trying to decide whether to circumcise your boy is telling. It tells us, very clearly, that circumcision is not necessary. After

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— Last month, China banned companies from manufacturing, importing or selling baby bottles that contain bisphenol A (BPA), a potentially dangerous chemical routinely added to everyday plastic products.

China joins Canada, France, Denmark and the European Union in recognizing that this chemical is linked to a number of harmful health effects like breast cancer, heart disease, obesity, hyperactivity and other disorders.

Unfortunately, BPA is still routinely used in hundreds of consumer products sold in the United States.

BPA became widely used in the manufacturing of plastics in the 1950s.

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