The Whole Man Program

Jed Diamond

Description

"The perfect gift for every man over 40."
-Michael Gurian

"Rich with solutions to becoming a whole man."
-Warren Farrell, Ph.D., author of Why Men Are the Way They Are

"In The Whole Man Program, Jed Diamond treads fearlessly into the new territory of what it means to be a healthy man. This book guides and inspires you to make more conscious choices that will enhance your body, mind, and soul."
-David Simon, M.D., Medical Director of the Chopra Center for Well Being, author of the Nautilus Award--winning Vital Energy and Return to Wholeness, and coauthor of The Chopra Center Cookbook

You can take positive steps toward improving your health and maximizing your passion, productivity, and purpose. Written by the bestselling author of Male Menopause and based on the latest breakthrough information, The Whole Man Program offers proven techiniques that will help you reach a whole new level of physical, emotional, and spiritual health. You'll learn how to lose weight and meet specific fitness goals; prevent heart disease, cancer, depression, and other diseases; put life and love back into your sex life; find your calling and be happy with your work life; and achieve new levels of energy and vitality-and have fun while you're doing it. So get with the program-start reading The Whole Man Program today and feel better than ever.
Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

PART I: MEN'S HEALTH OVER 40.

How Men Can Live Long and Well.

My Own Health Journey and the New Men's Health Movement.

Andropause—Male Menopause.

PART II: THE PROBLEM WITH MEN'S HEALTH.

Why Men Die Sooner and Live Sicker.

The 14 Emotional and Biological Reasons Men Don't Take Better Care of Themselves.

Men's Shame.

PART III: THE MEN ALIVE PROGRAM FOR PHYSICAL HEALTH.

The Physical Health Questionnaire.

Food for Life: How to Really Eat Like a Man.

Testosterone and Other Male Hormones: What We Need to Know.

Health Is Not for the Weak—Let's Get Physical.

PART IV: THE MEN ALIVE PROGRAM FOR EMOTIONAL AND SPIRITUAL HEALTH.

Understandung Our Feelings and Recognizing Our Emotional Pain.

Healing Our Emotional Selves.

From Career to Calling: Finding Our Spirit.

PART V: THE MEN ALIVE PROGRAM FOR HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS.

Inside a Men's Support Group.

Gender Shifting and Male Magnetism in the Second Half of Life.

Coming to Peace with the Woman and Reclaiming Our True Roles as Men.

Developing and Maintaining Intimacy.

PART VI: THE EIGHT-WEEK MEN ALIVE HEALTH CHALLENGE.

Healthier than You've Ever Been.

Men's Health Resources.

Selected Bibliography.

Index.

Sujets

• Santé et bien-être
• Santé du quotidien
• Santé au quotidien
• Santé au quotidien
• Fitness
• Health
• Men's Health

Informations

• Publié par: Turner Publishing Company
• Date de parution: 24 août 2007
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780470254936
• Langue: English

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The Whole Man Program
Reinvigorating Your Body, Mind, and Spirit after 40


Jed Diamond
Also by Jed Diamond
Surviving Male Menopause: A Guide for Women and Men Male Menopause
The Warrior s Journey Home: Healing Men, Healing the Planet Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places Inside Out: Becoming My Own Man
Copyright 2002 by Jed Diamond. All rights reserved
Published by John Wiley Sons, Inc., New York
The author gratefully acknowledges permission from the following sources to include material in this book:
From Worry by Edward M. Hallowell, copyright 1997 by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. Used by permission of Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc.
From The Wonder of Boys by Michael Gurian, published by Tarcher/Putnam, a division of Penguin Putnam, Inc. Used by permission.
10 Reasons to Exercise by Ken Goldberg, M.D., used by permission.
From Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man, copyright 1999 by Susan Faludi, reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
From The Testosterone Revolution, copyright by Malcolm Carruthers, M.D., reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
Material on Tom Sipes vision quest by permission of Tom Sipes.
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This book is dedicated to all of the men and women who have shared their stories with me over the last 37 years. It is through their struggles and dedication to men s health that this book is possible.

Every serious thinker must ask and answer three fundamental questions:
(1) What is wrong with us? With men? Women? Society? What is the nature of our alienation? Our dis-ease?
(2) What would we be like if we were whole? Healed? Actualized? If our potentiality was fulfilled?
(3) How do we move from our condition of brokenness to wholeness? What are the means of healing?
-Paul Tillich
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction

P ART I M EN S H EALTH OVER 40
1 How Men Can Live Long and Well
2 My Own Health Journey and the New Men s Health Movement
3 Andropause-Male Menopause

P ART II T HE P ROBLEM WITH M EN S H EALTH
4 Why Men Die Sooner and Live Sicker
5 The 14 Emotional and Biological Reasons Men Don t Take Better Care of Themselves
6 Men s Shame

P ART III T HE M EN A LIVE P ROGRAM FOR P HYSICAL H EALTH
The Physical Health Questionnaire
7 Food for Life: How to Really Eat Like a Man
8 Testosterone and Other Male Hormones: What We Need to Know
9 Health Is Not for the Weak-Let s Get Physical

P ART IV T HE M EN A LIVE P ROGRAM FOR E MOTIONAL AND S PIRITUAL H EALTH
10 Understanding Our Feelings and Recognizing Our Emotional Pain
11 Healing Our Emotional Selves
12 From Career to Calling: Finding Our Spirit

P ART V T HE M EN A LIVE P ROGRAM FOR H EALTHY R ELATIONSHIPS
13 Inside a Men s Support Group
14 Gender Shifting and Male Magnetism in the Second Half of Life
15 Coming to Peace with the Woman and Reclaiming Our True Roles As Men
16 Developing and Maintaining Intimacy

P ART VI T HE E IGHT -W EEK M EN A LIVE H EALTH C HALLENGE
17 Healthier than You ve Ever Been
Men s Health Resources
Selected Bibliography
Index
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS


I want to thank my wife, Carlin, for her commitment to having a healthy husband in her life. She has been a wonderful role model for health and a committed partner.
My children Jemal, Angela, Aaron, Evan, and Dane keep me oriented toward the future and continually challenge me to practice what I preach.
Nancy Ellis continues to be a magnificent agent, always going the extra mile to ensure that my literary health continues to deepen over the years.
Tom Miller, my editor at John Wiley Sons, has helped make this book a much better one than it would have been without his suggestions, support, and challenge.
I want to thank my colleagues in the field of men s health, particularly Dr. Will Courtenay, Dr. Malcolm Carruthers, Dr. Clement Williams, Dr. Ken Goldberg, Dr. Warren Farrell, John Lee, Erin Pizzey, David Shackleton, Jean Bonhomme, Ron Henry, Steven Svoboda, Marilyn Milos, Tracie Snitker, Bert Hoff, Gordon Clay, and Jim Bracewell.
My assistant, Norman Roscoe, has kept all my various tasks coordinated and has been a tremendous help in putting the final touches on the book.
I want to thank the men in my group for their personal support, for being models of the kind of men whose health improves as they age, and for their lifelong commitment to stay together.
I want to give special thanks to all the men and women who have opened their hearts and shared their stories with me. Your courage has inspired me many times when my own courage had failed. Your commitment to health makes the world a better place for us all to live.
INTRODUCTION

I am a 58-year-old married man. I have five children and, as of the writing of this book, eight grandchildren. I have been interested in men s health since I was 6 years old, when my father became seriously ill.
I was a biology major in college and went into medical school after I graduated. My interest in the psychosocial aspects of health quickly deepened and I soon left the study of medicine and enrolled in the School of Social Work at the University of California at Berkeley.
The women s movement was beginning to have an impact on the wider society and a number of women s health clinics were being started. There was a recognition that women s health needs were different than men s and required a gender-specific approach to healing.
At that time many believed that all health care was geared toward the needs of men-that everything, other than the few clinics for women, was family and general health care. Following that reasoning there would be no need for a specific focus on men s health. I didn t believe that was true then and I don t believe it is true now.
I have written this book to show the importance of a specific health program for men and to give men specific guidance in using the program to stay healthy as we age. My 37 years of experience in the health field has convinced me that it is just as important that men have a health program that speaks to our needs as it is that women have a program that focuses on their unique health concerns.
Some people are afraid that an approach to health that takes into account the differences between men and women would lead toward inequality and poorer care for one sex. I don t believe that needs to be the case. Acknowledging the differences in our health needs, as well as the similarities, can go a long way toward ensuring that men and women are as healthy as it is possible for us to be.
Most people would agree that men and women are different. There are obvious differences in our bodies. But the differences go beyond our anatomy. We now know that men s and women s brains are different, both in structure and in operation. We have different reactions to many medications. We deal with stress in different ways. Our emotional vulnerabilities differ. We contract disease and die at different rates. It s time we acknowledged the differences and developed programs to meet the specific needs of men as well as women.
This approach is becoming accepted globally. While a gender-specific approach is often used to identify persistent inequalities in the status of women, says a recent report from the World Health Organization, the specific situation of men, particularly older men, also requires investigation and further studies, especially with regard to the determinants of health.

I also wrote this book because there are significant differences between the health issues that younger men experience and those that we experience as we get older. For instance, prostate infections are quite common in younger men. Prostate enlargement is often present as we age. Violence is the cause of death for many young men. The lack of intimacy and love is the cause of death for many older men.
In our younger years we often took our health for granted. We didn t learn all we could because we didn t think we needed to do anything specific to stay healthy. As we get older it is clear that we need more information, and we need the support to act on that information.
The third reason I wrote this book is that my experience convinced me that we needed an integrative approach to healing that took into account all aspects of men s health. It isn t enough to focus on getting men to go to the doctor more often. In fact, men s reluctance to go to doctors may be because we know that seeing a doctor is not the most important aspect of health.
We need to focus on nutrition, hormones, physical activity, feelings and emotions, our career and calling, understanding wome