Men Have Special Nutritional Needs, Too Men need to pay attention to their health and nutritional needs.

The ways in which men and women differ are innumerable. Now you can add nutritional needs to the list.

While women would seem to have more special nutritional needs than men, given the demands that biology puts on them, men need to pay attention to their own set of nutritional demands as well.

Many problems caused in part by nutrition are common to both men and women, such as cardiac disease, obesity, and diabetes. In general, absolute nutritional requirements in men are greater than in women, simply because men as a population are larger and have more muscle mass than women.