As discussed in numerous articles on the causes of erectile dysfunction there is a type of male impotence that is caused by the used of certain medications. Doctors even call it drug-induced impotence. Different substances including prescription, non-prescription, over-the-counter, herbal and recreational drugs can cause a negative effect on a man’s sexual abilities. And it’s not a rule of thumb – if one man gets an ED by using a certain antidepressant another person can be perfectly active using the very same medication. It’s all just a matter of case study, however there are general tendencies that can be observed.
In case you feel like a certain drug you are currently taking affects your sexual abilities you should inform your doctor first. He or she is the person to decide whether you should stop taking the medication or not. Never take such decisions on your own, as with some drugs you may experience severe withdrawal effects if you stop taking them not as prescribed by your doctor. Your health and even life can depend on that so don’t do anything without your doctor knowing. Experiencing ED for a few days is not as dramatic as ending up in the emergency room with a severe withdrawal effect. Continue reading →
Sometimes people want their good news delivered in convenient bite-sized amounts. If you cut out all the chatter and boil it down to just one simple thing, what do I have to do to lose weight? When experts get put on the spot, they tend to fall back on a formula. Reduce your diet to this number of calories and you will lose weight. The person does a mental calculation. That number sounds doable. Right. Let’s do it! There may be a lot of other information that should be given, other factors to take into account. But none of that is heard. The decision is based on just one number. Way back when, one of the more common formulas to see the light of day was an equation. About 3,500 calories add up to about 1 pound of fat (that’s 0.45 kg who think in metric). Keeping it simple, that means you lose 1 pound every week if you cut 500 calories a day.
When an expert is trapped into endorsing such a plan, almost everyone will say they can do it. Ah, but wait a moment. At your current intake, you may have been putting on 1 pound of fat every week. So if all you do is reduce your overall intake by 3,500, the only effect would be to avoid putting on another pound. What tends to happen as people age is their stomach capacity grows. They feel comfortable with increasingly large volumes of food inside. This fuels a progressive weight increase and a slow journey into obesity. So whatever charges you plan to make to your diet must take account of your current weight and eating habits. This is not to say that sacrificing 3,500 calories a week will not produce some weight loss. But whatever is lost is unlikely to be significant and the loss will not continue. People who diet will know that, after a month or so, their weight stabilizes at a new level. Those who are easily discouraged go back to their old eating habits and stop whatever exercise they had started. Within a week or so, they are back to their old weight. Continue reading →