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'Jaw, jaw is better than war, war'
War is the ultimate men's health issue. It's estimated that over 100 million people died in the various wars of the twentieth century. Many more will die young in Ukraine.
We're not going to get into the rights and wrongs of invading another country. I think we all know the answer to that one. The point is that watching all this needless suffering from hundreds of miles away affects our health too. You look at your phone or the TV, watch the latest horrors, wonder what you can do and feel useless. It's happening to men and women all over the world right now.
We may kid tell ourselves we're not affected, that we can block it out. Men are particularly good at this form of self-delusion. But we wouldn't be human if we could really ignore it. We need to accept that what happens around us will affect our mood - and it's perfectly normal that it should.
Look after yourself
When the world comes crashing down around us, more than ever we need to do the things that we know are good for us. (If you're wondering what you can do to feel a little better that's easy and effective, there are five tried and tested ways in our CAN DO challenge.)
A British prime minister - historians can't quite agree which one - once said: 'jaw, jaw is better than war, war'. He was more right than he imagined because it doesn't just apply to those directly involved, it applies to us all. We all need to talk about how this makes us feel. Acknowledge you're angry. Show you care. And look after yourself.
Jim Pollard,
Editor
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The Men’s Health Forum need your support It’s tough for men to ask for help but if you don’t ask when you need it, things generally only get worse. So we’re asking. In the UK, one man in five dies before the age of 65. If we had health policies and services that better reflected the needs of the whole population, it might not be like that. But it is. Policies and services and indeed men have been like this for a long time and they don’t change overnight just because we want them to. It’s true that the UK’s men don’t have it bad compared to some other groups. We’re not asking you to ‘feel sorry’ for men or put them first. We’re talking here about something more complicated, something that falls outside the traditional charity fund-raising model of ‘doing something for those less fortunate than ourselves’. That model raises money but it seldom changes much. We’re talking about changing the way we look at the world. There is nothing inevitable about premature male death. Services accessible to all, a population better informed. These would benefit everyone - rich and poor, young and old, male and female - and that’s what we’re campaigning for. We’re not asking you to look at images of pity, we’re just asking you to look around at the society you live in, at the men you know and at the families with sons, fathers and grandads missing. Here’s our fund-raising page - please chip in if you can.
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