Zounds! Twice as Likely to Die?

May 182021

Zounds! Twice as Likely to Die?

Guys, surprised to find you added a few pounds lately?
Here’s a newsflash for you, you aren’t alone.
But it is important to do something about it before it gets completely out of hand.
Men who are significantly overweight are twice as likely to die prematurely. Let me repeat that: twice as likely to die prematurely!
Like 100 percent more often.
Got it?
If that isn’t deep enough into the weeds for you, here are a few pertinent facts—excerpted from my book The Sexy Beast Diet: The Man’s Guide to Healthy, Satisfying Eating.

Your Heart

It was thought that being overweight contributed only indirectly to heart disease. But recent analysis of long-term studies indicate that obesity independently predicts increased degrees of atrial fibrillation, congestive heart failure, and coronary death in adults.
Small weight reductions in those who are overweight have been shown to dramatically improve one’s odds. Think what large reductions in weight might do.

Your Blood Supply

Being overweight is connected to a Sexy Beast’s chances of suffering a stroke. Strokes are caused when blood supply to a part of the brain is diminished.
Hardening of the arteries, often intensified in overweight men, can cause a stroke if blood vessels to the brain are affected.
And, while it isn’t completely understood, abdominal obesity, often defined in men as having a waist measurement of more than 40 inches, is known to be a potent risk factor in strokes.
Strokes are medical emergencies. It is best to avoid them.

Your Prostate

Overweight men have a 25% increased risk of death from prostate cancer. Mildly obese men have a 46% higher risk.
Severely obese men double their risk.
Traditional treatments for this type of cancer too often result in incontinence and impotence. While remedies for prostate cancer do continue to improve, trust me on this one, no Sexy Beast wants prostate troubles.

Your Brain

Consider this: The brain in overweight people shrinks quicker than in others resulting in lower cognitive abilities and poorer memory as one ages.
Seriously, who wants to be old, fat, and stupid?

You can find simple, successful, masculine strategies for obtaining and maintaining a healthy weight in The Sexy Beast Diet. If you would like a free copy for yourself or a friend, please email Mettee@TheWriteThought.com.*
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New Diet Pill to Replace Diet Plans?

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Feb 232012

: Will pills replace dieting plans? Photo compliments Vichie81

In an attempt to make the Sexy Beast Diet plan superfluous…

The pharmaceutical industry (read “evil pharmaceutical industry”) has yet again pitched a diet pill to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, but this time, unlike the 2010 attempt with the same pill, the FDA’s advisory committee voted 20-2 to endorse the drug.

This isn’t the last step in the approval process, but the FDA usually takes the advice of the experts on its advisory committees. Final approval of what will be the first diet pill to clear the hurdles in more than a decade should come later in 2012.

The drug, Qnexa, manufactured by Vivus–my spellchecker wants to make that “Virus”–is a combination of amphetamine phentermine and topiramate. You may recall that amphetamine phentermine had an infamous previous life as the active ingredient in the now-outlawed weight loss drug fen-phen.

Topiramate is an anti-convulsion medication used to treat people with epilepsy and to control migraine headaches. Topiramate may cause osteoporosis in adults and rickets in children. The new combo pill has the risk of causing heart problems and birth defects.

I don’t suppose authors of diet books have much to worry about, but to hedge my bets, I’m going to load up on Vivus stock.

Beer Built the Pyramids

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Feb 012012

It's likely that ancient man invented agriculture so he could have an ample beer supply. Photo courtesy Idea Go.

We all know what the oldest profession is, but which do you think came first, baker or brewer?

According to University of Pennsylvania Professor Patrick McGovern, who is known as the “Indiana Jones of Ancient Ales, Wines, and Extreme Beverages,” Neolithic farmers had developed the necessary skills to grow grains so they could brew beer thousands of years before anyone was baking bread.

This means Sexy Beasts were guzzling beer at least 9,000 years ago. I don’t find that surprising. I imagine hunting and gathering from dawn till dusk was thirsty work.

Not only did man’s quest for beer help establish agriculture; it was beer that built the pyramids. The laborers who worked on the pyramids in ancient Egypt were paid in beer; 231,414,717 gallons of it for the pyramid at Giza alone. Anheuser-Busch eat your heart out.

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Favorite Dieting Quote?

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Dec 022011

You are the hero of your life.

“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”

—Teddy Roosevelt

Setting Diet Goals

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Nov 282011

Chapter Two: First Things

Let’s get started.

Habit number two of Stephen Covey’s famed The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People is “Begin with the end in mind.” Good advice, let’s take it.

Set goals you can meet

I admit, as Sexy Beasts, we shudder at the thought of handcuffing ourselves to any one course. We are free-souls meant to satisfy our every whim and wanderlust.

Of course, there are times when handcuffs may come in handy. If the bedposts are…but wait, I digress.

On the other handcuff…uh, hand, knowing where you are headed has its advantages. For instance, how would you know when you arrived if you didn’t know where you were going?

With this in mind, let’s set some dieting goals. Our goals need to be both firm and reasonable.

The firm part is easy because, as Sexy Beasts, we are decisive beasts, confident in our ability to self discipline.

The reasonable part is a bit harder for us. Let’s face it, there have been times when we’ve bitten off more than we could chew. This isn’t, in itself, a bad thing. Always good to shoot for the moon and all that old chap, but with our dieting we have to be reasonable or we stand the chance of becoming dispirited and a dispirited Sexy Beast is ah…dispiriting.

Let’s set two goals: how much and how soon.