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Posted: 11:50 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011

What Men Should Eat Everyday

Food:

Antioxidants (5 servings a day) In brightly colored foods like blueberries, sweet potatoes, broccoli, tomatoes and acai Green and white tea (4 cups a day) Red wine or Concord grape juice (1 glass a day) Fiber (25 grams a day) In fruits, vegetables, beans, brown rice, whole wheat pasta, "100 percent" whole grain bread and chia Omega 3 fatty acids In roasted or ground flax seeds, walnuts, hemp, salmon and spirolina algae Olive oil (1 to 2 tablespoons a day) Do not heat this delicate oil to smoking point or it will be damaged and lose its benefits

Exercise:

Get your heart rate up (3 times a week) Find your target exercising heart rate: 220 - [your age] X .80 Do strength training (30 minutes a week)

Meditation:

Yoga, prayer or meditation (5 minutes a day) Releases nitric oxide, which relaxes blood vesselsSleep and Sex: Sleep (7 to 8 hours a night) Monogamous sex (2 to 3 times a week)

Vitamins:

Vitamin D (1,000 units a day) Calcium (600 mg twice a day) with Magnesium (200 mg twice a day) DHA Omega-3 (600 mg a day) Baby aspirin (2 a day, for a total of 162 milligrams) Multivitamin (Take half in the morning, half in the evening)Pre-menopausal women need a multivitamin with iron and 5,000 units of vitamin A. Men and postmenopausal women need just 2,500 units of vitamin A.

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