Ready for that trip?  Oil changed? Checked. Tires inflated? Yes sir. What if that trip is this thing called LIFE?  Blood pressure, heart rate, testosterone levels who knows? A recent survey reveals that an incredible 70 percent of men find it easier to care for their cars. Why?  

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Our Dr. Harry Fisch has some thoughts.  "At age 40," warns Dr. Fisch, urologist and clinical professor of medicine at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical College, "the body begins to change and men are past the maintenance free years."

The other factor is programming since childhood.  "When a boy is 5 years old and skins his knee, he is told that big boys do not cry," says Scott Williams, vice president of Men's Health Network, who commissioned the survey. "Fast-forward to adulthood and chest pain evokes the same dismissive reaction." But denying changing health requirements can be dangerous, experts say.

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