Tubby or not tubby? Fat is the question

Men's Health Week 2005 is all about men and weight.

What's your weight like? Too high? Too low? Not in the right place? Just right? How we feel about our weight depends a lot on how we feel about our body in general and about ourselves. If you want to do something about your weight, this month malehealth can help you.

Five facts about men and weight:

• Unless we change our behaviour, three quarters of men will be overweight in five years time (2010)
• Obese men are 33% more likely to die from cancer than men of healthy weight.
• A man who is two stone overweight is twice as likely to have a heart attack as a man of healthy weight.
• Men with a waist circumference above 1m (39 inches) or more have considerably increased health risks than those below.
• Eating just 50 kcals (equivalent to a digestive biscuit) a day more than you burn off will see you put on 2kg a year. The body slows down as you get older making this increasingly easy to do.

All the links you need...

What's on malehealth on men and weight? A list of links to content on this site including all the heavy stuff on diet and weight problems.

Competition — win iPods, signed football shirts and body fat monitors in our biggest competition ever — also probably the easiest!

Bloggers — blokes banging on about their bellies. Everyday.

Men get anorexia too. Thousands of them - you could be forgiven for thinking that losing weight is always a good thing. It's not.

Free downloads — from the HGV Manual, the latest in the best-selling series of men's health manuals written by Dr Ian Banks and published by Haynes.

More Fat fives - you'll need pop-ups enabled to view these

• Five body fat facts
• Five features of metabolic syndrome (or, why it's better to eat an apple than look like one)
• Five diets that don't do it
• Five pedometers
• Five recommendations to government

Events all over the UK

Links — enough weight links to keep you out of the kitchen for years.