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Better sex and longer life: need more reasons to go veg? Look, we're only saying eat your vegetables, not give up beer and pizza.(vegetarian)

Better Nutrition

| May 01, 2003 | Downey, Michael | COPYRIGHT 2003 PRIMEDIA Intertec, a PRIMEDIA Company. All Rights Reserved. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Hey, you're a masculine specimen, right? You're generally taller, more muscular and, well, less prone to crying jags than the feminine gender. But when a long-legged, long-haired woman slinks across your TV screen, does your heart skip a beat? Well, let that image of your sputtering heart serve as a life-and-death reminder.

The differences between the sexes go a lot deeper than what you see on the outside. To put it bluntly, men are engineered from birth to be much more susceptible--at any given age--to heart attacks, chronic disorders, the ravages of time and, ultimately, to death than their more shapely counterparts. So just which is the weaker sex, macho man?

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