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RealAge enables private checkup to bolster prostate cancer awareness
San Diego, CA, September 12, 2008 -- Men are 25% less likely to visit a doctor than women, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. So RealAge.com, the leading health and wellness Web site, is ensuring that the gender prone to ignoring symptoms has private, online access to lifesaving information.
Prostate Cancer Awareness Month is designed to bring this disease into the public eye. To increase awareness, RealAge.com has teamed up with the Prostate Cancer Foundation to promote private and ready access to the latest preventive strategies and research results. At http://www.realage.com/health_guides/bph/introduction.asp, men can evaluate their symptoms in a 3-minute questionnaire and immediately receive personalized recommendations.
To reduce the risk of prostate cancer, RealAge also recommends that men:
- Drink green tea. Five cups of green tea a day cut prostate cancer risk in half, according to research studies.
- Avoid a diet high in saturated fat but indulge in plenty of fruit and veggies.
- Choose cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower, kale, and cabbage; sulforaphane -- the compound that makes these veggies a little bitter -- may help disarm prostate cancer cells before they do any damage.
For more about Prostate Cancer Awareness Month and the online Symptom Checker, visit www.RealAge.com, or contact Meredith Wade, RealAge PR, at 858-200-7497.
About RealAge.com
RealAge.com is a healthy-lifestyle Web site that inspires its members to "Live Life to the Youngest" and to pursue their health and wellness goals by making their RealAge younger. The site offers the patented RealAge Test, the most widely used method for measuring overall health, and is the official online home of the YOU Docs, Michael Roizen, MD, and Mehmet Oz, MD, and their best-selling RealAge and YOU books. Over 20 million people have measured their RealAge by taking the RealAge Test and have received a personalized plan to make their RealAge younger. This leading healthy-lifestyle Web site also features more than 65 additional health-risk assessments, as well as health tips and information, all backed by current, valid science. RealAge.com is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hearst Magazines, a division of the Hearst Corporation.
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