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Saturated fats can raise the level of cholesterol in your blood. They tend to be found in the same foods that have cholesterol: red meats, dairy products (except for no-fat varieties] and different types of shortening. On the other hand, small amounts of polyunsaturated fats, found in vegetables such as corn, soybeans and safflower seeds, [...]

Surgical methods to improve potency have undergone major advances in recent years. Blocked arteries that prevent blood from traveling to the penis can now be reopened or bypassed. Leaky veins that sabotage erection can be tied off, restoring potency. And penile prostheses, or implants, can restore potency to men who otherwise would have to resign [...]

Jason learned a painful lesson about the importance of choosing the right doctor. It had taken this reserved and very private man a long time to finally decide to seek help for his persistent erection problem. He was too uncomfortable to really ask any questions when he made an appointment with a doctor he had [...]

Some women, especially those in relationships where potency had been a long-standing unresolved problem, felt cheated. Some saw erection as proof that they were truly desire< by their husbands, and to them, the absence of erection meant rejection. As a child, Jenny, now 47, had learned rigid ideas about what constituted “normal” sexual behavior, and [...]

This was exactly the case with Jack, a thirty-two-year-old advertising executive whose bike accident dramatically altered his life. Riding his high-tech twenty-one-speed mountain bike in one of the many regional races he entered throughout the year, he hit a patch of gravel and started to go down. Yanking his foot from the pedal in an [...]