1. Ryan Resolves

   03/01/17

   Comedian John Ryan would love to make some new year resolutions but none of them are logical. It’s ... the New Year and for some reason everyone wants to make a change. It is just a date on the calendar, ... but every year it sends some people into frenzy for fresh start. Out with the old and in with the new. ... More

2. Ben: 'I was very hard - working. Probably too much.'

   26/07/18

   Ben is in his late 40s. He has type 1 diabetes with some type 2 characteristics. About four years ... means I can suddenly feel very dizzy and have low sugar. It took two years to get them to do the test ... More

3. John: 'Monitoring my numbers helps me manage'

   25/07/18

   John is in his 50s. He has type 2 diabetes. I was diagnosed 13 years ago. I was overweight. Then ... More

4. World Cup 2018 Survival Guide

   21/06/18

   swiftly on, this year’s Men’s Health Week is about diabetes. The odds on you as a UK male getting diabetes ... about 20-1- the same as Portugal’s two years ago so you never know. Let’s be optimistic. Recent research ... More

5. The stadium of hate

   04/05/16

   As Men’s Health Week approaches, Jim Pollard looks inside the male mind. This year’s Men’s Health ... More

6. Paul: 'I know what it's like at the bottom'

   04/08/16

   him. I have a long history of problems with mental health starting many years ago with the death of my ... aplenty along the way and I have now been free of substance misuse for 7 years. I still on VERY rare ... going to Kent Sheds for two years. I enjoy the company and making new friends. Although there have been ... More

7. Moses: 'Listen to your body. Talk to Man MOT.'

   16/06/15

   Wandsworth man Moses was diagnosed last year with cancer. At first I thought I had a chest ... infection, which I  ignored for the best part of a year. When I started  to cough up blood and lose weight ... I started treatment immediately. I'm now  35 years old and currently in the second phase of cancer ... More

8. Do it while they're alive

   20/05/16

   scene for Men’s Health Week which this year is all about stress. Now some might argue that football is ... cancer myself 20 years ago – a lot less aggressive than Phil's. There were a couple of cards I’d had ... wrote for the site earlier this year: go and see your bloody GP. Jim Pollard is editor of the Men's ... More

9. Tim: Why I hate Elvis Presley

   26/04/18

   hadn’t fully gone away and two years later I had an abscess. The surgery took all day because of the ... Doctor Martens. It’s about adapting. Now, nearly 20 years after open-heart surgery, I’m a qualified ... on what you can do- like umpiring- rather than what you can’t. When I was ill again a couple of years ... More

10. CJ: 'Realising I am trans has been the best thing in my life'

    07/12/15

    in Trinidad and Tobago where I lived until I was 14 years old, at which point I moved to London with ... I identified as a lesbian for many years after that, but my body (specifically my chest) was a source of much ... people, kids around my own age, who were just being themselves and being normal! Over the next year or so ... More

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