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This is a groundbreaking book about men's health and secrets of longevity. Legato shows how men are the weaker gender. She shows why boys have a hard time adjusting in school, why men are more prone to acts of aggression, and the clinical reasons they are three times as likely to die from cancer. The author is founder of international institute: Legato's Partnership for Gender Specific Medicine which has a global reach. From 2002, it has gained collaboration with Sweden's Karolinska Institute and from 2006, the institute has signed on collaborators throughout Japan. Legato lectures frequently in Europe, and the institute's scientific journal Gender Medicine, has global circulation. Statistically women outlive men by a decade worldwide. This book shows the physiological and psychological reasons for this, and ways to reverse the trend that cuts across cultural dividesAuthor has good platform in the US - NBC's Good Morning America, The Today Show, and The Oprah Winfrey Show. New York Magazine consistently features her in their top doctor's issue. Publication date coincides with Men's Health Week which takes place in the UK and Europe in June 2008, and also with Father's Day in the UK. This book offers specific advice on what men can do to live better, including: lifestyle changes that can prevent heart disease, why young men take on high risk endeavors and how to decrease the stress, how to cope with mid life depression and feelings of emasculation and uselessness, and how testosterone shots can mitigate the symptoms of aging.

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