New World Cup survival guide

08/06/18 . News

The Forum has produced a new World Cup 2018 Survival Guide to mark Men’s Health Week and the start of the World Cup.

The tongue-in-cheek guide outlines how male fans can survive the tournament covering:

  • The odds of getting diabetes (about the same as the odds on Argentina winning the world cup) ·
  • The best snacks to eat while watching 
  • Dealing with the stress of a penalty shoot-out 
  • The link between winning – and heart disease

Martin Tod, Chief Executive of the Men’s Health Forum, said:

We’re really keen to see a healthy result from the World Cup. Not just for England, but also for the fans.

Men’s Health Week 2018 is focused on diabetes – and encouraging men to talk about their health problems. Other materials relating to Men’s Health Week in England, Wales and Scotland and more information can be found at menshealthforum.org.uk/mhw

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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