1. Can food make you better at sport?

   21/12/17

   sweet potatoes Eat fruit as snacks- bananas are good as they are portable and help replenish your body’s ... carbohydrate stores after exercise. (Whole fruit, not smoothies.)  How much exercise? Light exercise such as ... squash work just as well.  Hypotonic  Drinks contain a lower concentration of salts than body fluids plus ... More

2. Are you a sex or porn addict?

   23/01/23

   to your self esteem?   Understand it – once you’ve acknowledged that you have a problem the next ... pornographic images as when drug addicts see their drug of choice.  An estimated 1 in 25 people struggles with ... visiting sex workers, cruising and/or fetish behaviours. The type of behaviour is not what defines it as an ... More

3. Incontinence: 'I'd rather admit I can't get it up'

   14/04/16

   more open to discussing health problems, struggle to talk about it, what chance do men have? The key, ... Farthing. Is there a problem that is more embarrassing for a man to admit to than not being able to get an ... information and support on bladder problems, estimate that 3% of men between 15 and 44 are affected but, Muir ... More

4. Vasectomy: a kick in the balls?

   18/11/16

   the procedure. Perhaps things have improved now. The pain affected me mentally as well as physically. ... I was traumatised – that’s not too strong a word.’ One man who might be able to give Kieran an ... estimate it ‘PVP tends to appear 3-12 months after the procedure,’ he says. ‘Many men take time to do ... More

5. Covid - 19: Better Data

   01/03/22

   statistics pages show that we've had some success but there's still work to do. News stories We ... More

6. Cancer

   17/02/16

   rays. The problem is that normal cells are not entirely immune — indeed, excess radiation is a cause of ... replace those that have died, but sometimes something goes wrong and a single cell multiplies into a lump ... further. But some are malignant — this means they have the potential to spread throughout the body damaging ... More

7. Stranger Than A Talking Dog

   25/10/16

   to that.’ After all, as every teenager wonders: why do men have nipples anyway? SELF-TESTING: what to ... products are currently in the dock but it’s unlikely to be as simple as that.  ‘Japanese women have a low ... could simply be that they start living a western lifestyle: not exercising, smoking, drinking and having ... More

8. Mid - life crisis

   03/06/14

   the body, analogous to the female menopause. In fact, it may be possible that some men have to go ... psychologists argue that almost all men go through a mid-life crisis to some degree — they all have to deal with ... candidate. There is some evidence that men most affected by the mid-life crisis are those who have given ... More

9. Trans Men - useful links

   12/08/21

   Links to information from the Men's Health Forum's manual Your Body, Your Health- health ... choices made easy for trans men, trans masculine and non-binary people There's more on Your Body ... / agencies who have changed or need to change permanently their perceived gender, or who identify as ... More

10. Covid - 19: Honest communications

    04/05/20

    communicate directly with men with clear targeted age- and gender-sensitive information. We've even had ... a go at making a video ourselves.  Forum urges public health to talk directly to men Share our Men and ... elsewhere to come up with ways to talk to men about Covid-19: Try our creative challenge: how can we ... More

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