Looking after your Nuts & Bolts: Kiwi Men’s Health Guide
by Phil Gifford
Published by Upstart Press, RRP $39.99
Vital information about men’s health written in an
accessible and positive way from one of New Zealand’s finest writers.
This book doesn’t suggest a switch to silverbeet sandwiches,
organic oat bran enemas, kale smoothies, or naked sweat lodge fasting. But read
Looking After Your Nuts & Bolts and you will be able to look after your
heart, discover ways to genuinely prolong your sex life, learn how to get the
better of bowel cancer, and much more.
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Stub out the habit that can wreck your health
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Find out how to dodge the silent assassin that is diabetes
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Get the inside oil from the man who gets the All Blacks fit
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Never have to ask what actually happens in a prostate exam
In the words of Billy Connolly, ‘What’s the point in adding
three years to your life if you’re bloody miserable in all the years before
them?’
What’s being offered here is a place to check out ideas that
could help you live not just longer, but better. You won’t be invited to buy
pills, potions, pamphlets, magnets, or miracle fitness machines.
Everyone who’s quoted is an expert, whether it’s the fitness
trainer who guides the All Blacks, or the surgeon who does prostate checks more
often than Winston Peters sneaks a look in a mirror.
About the author:
Phil Gifford is one of New Zealand’s most respected and
experienced sports journalists. He has more than 20 sports books to his credit
and at various stages of his career was a genuine multi-media personality.
He has worked in newspapers, magazines, radio (where he became
one of New Zealand’s most recognisable voices) and television. This will be
Phil’s 25th book and he believes it will be easily the most important he will
ever write.
So what are my credentials for writing this book?
One. I’ve been a male all my life. Two. I’ve jumped, sometimes staggered, through all the usual lifetime hoops. Marriage, fatherhood, divorce, and remarriage. In the workplace, I’ve been hired, sacked, resigned, been sued and counter sued. Owned houses, sold houses, moved houses. Lived in the country, lived in the city.
Three. I’ve made a living writing and talking since I was 18. I’ve never believed in a book as much as I believe in this one.
Four. I’ve got skin in the health game. Both hips replaced, prostate cancer, bowel cancer, skin cancer, but happily now very much, as Willie Nelson says, ‘standing upright on the ground’.
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