Men’s health concerns, like those of women, evolve according to their ages and stages of life. “I feel badly for men because their health hasn’t been given the attention it deserves and they haven’t been encouraged to be interested in it until now,” says Kerry Hughes, MS, an ethnobotanist and regular contributor to Prepared Foods. Hughes notes that there is a wealth of plant-derived ingredients that men should consider incorporating into their daily life to improve health, energy, and performance.
Today, many men find themselves sedentary during the week, then go out on a weekend morning with the best of intentions at making up for lost time. They might opt for running 5 or 10 miles or biking 30 miles. Or they hit the gym–hard–lifting too much weight or overdoing the treadmill to “feel the burn.”