By general consensus, Herbert von Karajan’s first (1963) [tag]Beethoven[/tag] cycle for Deutsche Grammophon is the best of the four (!) that he recorded. The Berlin Philharmonic was in top form, and they had not yet made an artistic fetish out of the bland smoothness that typified the conductor’s later recordings of this music (and just about everything else). Karajan’s squeaky clean, emotionally cool Beethoven will always be something of an acquired taste, but this set makes the best possible case for it. –David Hurwitz

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In spite of the high use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) among people age 50 or older, 69 percent of those who use CAM do not talk to their doctors about it, according to a new survey conducted by AARP and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) at the National Institutes of Health.

If you are male and over 50 you really need to be having regular PSA tests. The prostate enlarges as you age and the urinary symptoms for mild infection to prostate cancer are very similar.

There are herbal remedies for prostate problems. Diet can help too. A new study showed that after 22 weeks a tomato/broccoli combo outperformed all other diets in shrinking prostate tumors. Biopsies of tumors were evaluated at The Ohio State University, confirming that tumor cells in the tomato/broccoli-fed rats were not proliferating as rapidly. The only treatment that approached the tomato/broccoli diet’s level of effectiveness was castration (not a good choice).

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A maxim with universal application is that if you are a male over 50 you should be aware of the symptoms of enlarged prostate or BPH (benign prostatic hyperplasia). It is not well understood what causes BPH other than aging and there are no real risk factors that you can change. BPH is not prostate cancer but some of the symptoms are similar.

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