New Years Resolutions

Many of us have forgotten our New Years Resolutions while some of us are still maintaining our lofty goals! Personally I am working on maintaining and improving my health overall for 2008 and beyond. Of course prostate health is vitally important to me and so is keeping a high level of cardio fitness through bicycle racing. You don't need to take things to extremes like I do but you can do a few things daily to help you.

• Eat healthy everyday - sounds hard to do but it can be maintained if you make it a habit.


• Exercise 3 times a week.


• Take a 15 minute walk at lunch time or after dinner.

The www is a valuable resource for finding recipes and ways to stay fit even as we age. A few quick searches for keywords like healthy recipes or fitness can yield many helpful websites. Take a look around and you'll find a vast amount of information that can and will help you stay in shape and enjoy life.

Your health matters

Prostate health is vital to a long life. In addition to getting regular checkups and maintaining health overall make certain your doing all you can to get healthy. Maybe you're a few pounds overweight. Fad diets don't do much except cause you to gain more weight than you started with! Real weight loss solutions go hand in hand with getting your health back on track. Take the time to research solutions and you'll find yourself living a long fruitful life.

News: Prostate Test Flaws Prompt New Strategy

Every year, millions of men are screened for prostate cancer with PSA tests – blood tests that measure levels of the protein prostate-specific antigen. Higher PSA levels, especially above 4 nanograms per milliliter of blood, are used to indicate cancer and send men for prostate biopsies.

However, a study of 1,607 prostate biopsies done at New York Presbyterian Hospital from 1993 to 2005 found that PSA scores no longer predict cancer in men whose prostates feel normal to a doctor. Dr. Douglas Scherr, who led the study, noted that they are seeing that the "prostate cancer detection rate has remained the same over time; roughly 30 percent of biopsies find cancer." Dr. Scherr added that they are seeing new urine-based tests, one is called PCA3.

He highly recommends a digital rectal exam to check for cancer. He was undecided whether or not a prostate biopsy test could be our next major screening tool, much the same as colonoscopy is now.