Men's Memes: Health

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Sunday, May 22, 2011

Life extension?

3 supplements that will help you extend your life

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Currently I am sat at home feeling sorry for myself as I have a cold. I usually get about 1 cold per year, which I think is probably a bit lower than average. Since the summer I've been going to the gym several times a week, and making an effort to eat healthily, and I haven't been sick in any way until now. What makes it particularly frustrating at the moment is that I'm not able to exercise at the moment: when you get into the habit of exercise, not doing any can make you feel particularly bad/frustrated!

Anyway, although you may find this to be common sense, or you may disagree with it, here are my thoughts on how to deal with a cold.

1. There is no cure for colds. Theres no magic bullet and almost certainly the vast majority of things that are supposed to get rid of it (e.g. orange juice) probably have hardly any impact beyond either comforting you, or maybe helping you fight the cold purely through your belief that they will (the placebo effect).

2. Vick's 'First Defence', if used early and often will weaken the intensity of the cold and make it last for fewer days. Its quite a vile thing to take, but it does have some effect in frustrating the cold's efforts to take hold.

3. Rest. The body needs as much energy as possible to help fight the cold, so just rest up, and drink lots of fluids.

4. Eat healthily. Now is not the time to be eating junk food to comfort yourself. Plenty of fruit and veg.

5. Two other things that can help: try flushing out your sinuses with luke-warm salt water (the unpleasant way to do it is over a sink, using a cup of salt water, snort it in then suck it through your nose and spit it out into the sink and blow your nose, the slightly easier, if more expensive, way to do it is to use a salt-water nasal spray such as Sterimar). Also, particularly before bedtime, if you are blocked up and having trouble breathing, use a decongestant like Sudafed.

Most colds take around 3 days. Good luck!

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

The scientific evidence for popular health supplements

Interactive graphic showing the scientific evidence for popular health supplements

Sunday, February 07, 2010

20 great foods you aren't eating

Sunday, March 08, 2009

Support research into prostate cancer

Most charity fund-raising efforts annoy me with their intrinsic pointlessness. For example, if someone asks to be sponsored to do a walk or run for charity, or, even worse, to do something like shave their head, I just think that they could be doing something intrinsically more useful AND raise money for charity at the same time. Imagine if someone went around saying: "I'm going to go and clean up the local lake, would you sponsor me to do so, and all the money will go to cancer research?" That way the person would be expending their energy on something useful to the wider community AND raising money.

Anyway, all that is just a prelude to me introducing this great little keyring that I bought in Marks and Spencer's this morning. They have them for sale on the cash-desks for £2 and I highly recommend all my readers in the UK getting one. Typically these kind of charity products are things like lapel pins, badges or wrist-bands. The trouble is that most men will not want to wear such things. I certainly don't. But this keyring is useful. It has a little detachable metal ring on it the same size and weight as a £1 coin. This is for times when you need to use a locker or shopping/airport trolley (hence you get the coin-shaped-circle back again), great for the gym or swimming pool. Here is the website for the charity that is selling them: www.Prostate-cancer.org.uk

Monday, November 26, 2007

Men's health funding 'unfashionable'?

Billions of pounds were spent telling us we were ALL at risk from Aids. But as scientists now admit the threat was overblown, Britain's top cancer expert attacks the political correctness that influences too much medical spending.

Also see:

Breast cancer currently receives 10 times more NHS funding than prostate cancer. Even acounting for the older age of most prostate cancer patients, the statistics do not appear to support this inequity. There are 41,700 new cases of breast cancer diagnosed per year, compared to 32,000 of prostate cancer. Breast cancer kills 12,400 women per year while prostate cancer kills 10,000 men.

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Turn of the tide: feminists begin to regret

Cosmopolitan (The women's magazine that urges women to use men for sex) Editor Lorraine Candy has a change of mind and now urges women not to have "Soul-less sex":

"We didn't feel ashamed about one-night stands...this, we thought, is what feminism is about."

70s feminist Fay Weldon now says:

"It is the fault of me and my like, who... got it wrong.

So were we wrong, we feminists, setting women free? The results have been devastating – greater than we ever imagined.

We steamed ahead, changing the world with too little caution, and I hope the future will forgive us.

The pendulum has swung too far over. But it may yet swing back again. Societies, thank God, tend to be self-righting."

"Once a man could look forward to starting a family and the dignity that came from being the provider. Forget it. At best as a man you're decorative, look after the kids and earn a bit sometimes; at worst you're a write-off. Women are elbowing the men out. The boys get anxious, the girls swagger. The male suicide rate goes up, female down. Twenty-eight per cent of us now live in single person households - a lonely and unnatural state - and most of the 28 per cent consist of young men. It is strange that it is left to a woman to suggest, in the normal nurturing way, that men start some kind of movement to promote their gender's status and self-esteem - call it masculinism, brotherism, machoism, what you want - and some mark of the success of the feminist movement, that it needs to be done."

60's feminist Doris Lessing now says:

"It is time we began to ask who are these women who continually rubbish men. The most stupid, ill-educated and nasty woman can rubbish the nicest, kindest and most intelligent man and no one protests.

Men seem to be so cowed that they can't fight back, and it is time they did."

An excerpt from an interview with Joan Rivers:

"She's not with the feminists when it comes to matters of the heart. For her, they're to blame for the current parlous state of our relationships, as depicted in these television Shows (Such as Sex in the city) and films. "I saw this coming. You cannot be equal to a man, you cannot make a man feel 'I don't need you' or 'I'll take my sex when I want it'. All these shows are so sad."

Camille Paglia :

"Women have been discouraged from genres such as sculpture that require studio training or expensive materials.

But in philosophy, mathematics, and poetry, the only materials are pen and paper.

Male conspiracy cannot explain ALL female failures.

I am convinced that, even without restrictions, there still would have been no female Pascal, Milton, or Kant.

. . . Even now, with all vocations open, I marvel at the rarity of the woman driven by artistic or intellectual obsession, that self-mutilating derangement of social relationship which, in its alternate forms of crime and ideation, is the disgrace and glory of the human species."