National Men’s Health Week 2010

June is National Men’s Health Month and today through Sunday is National Men’s Health Week. Signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1994, National Men’s Health Week always occurs the week before Father’s Day. The purpose of Men’s Health Week’s is to increase awareness of preventable health problems and encourage early detection and treatment of disease among men and boys. Statistically speaking, women are generally better about keeping tabs on their personal health and that’s one of the reasons they outlive men on average. In order to improve health overall, guys need to go to the doctor when sick, make sure to get regular checkups and get regular screenings for heart disease, prostate and colon cancers. Men and women can find a lot of information about improving their health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.