Author: fitness-expert
This weekend hundreds of thousands of gay men from around the country and abroad are descending on Manchester to celebrate gay Pride. These showcase events celebrate the diversity of gay culture, and offer an opportunity for men of all ages to stand together – out and proud. But such festivals of gay culture hide some very disturbing truths. First, for many gay men, there is only one thing worse than coming out as gay … and that is finding out what the gay scene is like. In my experience, young gay men’s expectations of the gay scene is of a…
We all know blokes are prone to putting on the pounds around our guts. We know its not good for our health but mores the point we don’t like it, our partners don’t like it, and now there appears to be a way of getting rid of it that is painless, quick and doesn’t involve diets or exercise – sound too good to be true? Read on … Lasers have been used in a wide range of medical procedures for years. Rodrigo Neira, a plastic surgeon, noticed in 2001, that if he shone a laser at a culture of fat…
Today the Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon said the floods in Pakistan were the worst natural disaster he had ever seen. Indeed the figures are incomprehensible. 20 million people have been affected by the floods. Many of the people first affected have not yet been reached by aid workers. Millions face starvation and death by water borne disease. If the world does not act decisively now this disaster has the potential to spiral into an avoidable catastrophe. It could bring death to tens of thousands of people. Pakistani citizens need to know the world cares. In Great…
Anger is an emotion we all feel from time to time. It’s normal, even healthy. In fact if we don’t express our anger it can be unhealthy, making us stressed and even depressed. Feeling anger is morally neutral, it’s neither good nor bad, it just is. We are entitled to feel angry, but what we do to express it can be problematic, especially to women. Why is this? Well often when we get angry it triggers the ‘fight or flight’ response. This is a basic human instinct that is controlled by an evolutionary old part of the brain. As the…
It has been known for a long time that when a person consumes a dose of glucose orally, the body releases a greater quantity of the glucose-reducing hormone insulin than if the same quantity of glucose was injected directly into the bloodstream through a vein. This difference in insulin release is due to the action of a separate hormone called incretin, which is produced in response to the ingestion of food by the intestine. While the presence of an increased concentration of glucose in the blood stimulates the pancreas to produce the hormone insulin, the function of incretin is to…
The colon is the last part of the gastrointestinal tract. It absorbs water and nutrients from food, and eliminates toxins from the blood, intestines, and lymph. In the colon, water and salts from partially digested food are absorbed. Whatever remains is sent out from the colon into the rectal and out through the anal. Thus, the colon is the wastebasket of the human body. A congested colon looks bloated and stretched with waste matter that can cause “self-poisoning.” Without a colon cleanse, the body functions will slow down, which will eventually lead to total system breakdown. Hence, it is important…
According to Geoffrey Miller, author of The Mating Mind, in evolutionary terms, the mind “… makes most sense as an entertainment system designed to stimulate other brains …” (p. 155) … but what is he referring to? Well all species develop what are called ‘sexual ornaments’ to display their fitness as a mate. Take a peacock for example. His elaborate display of feathers is a sexual ornament which demonstrates the health of his body and, by implication, his genes. There are a couple of features to sexual ornaments worth mentioning. First of all they display fitness because they invest excess…
Women are often baffled by men’s reactions to sport. Indeed some men are baffled too. As the World Cup will soon be upon us, and the nations euphoria will build on mass before, no doubt, we have to console ourselves at the loss of yet another penalty shoot out, I thought it might be useful to reflect on what’s going on … in our brains. The key to understanding men’s reactions to the World Cup, or any sport for that matter, is testosterone. From as early as being an unborn child, testosterone shapes and dominates men’s brains. It literally kills…
Staying healthy can be hard. Between long work hours and stress on top of the demands of one’s family, it’s no wonder people are struggling mentally and emotionally, which can lead to the deterioration of a person’s physical health. But it doesn’t have to be this way. People can manage themselves day-by-day with a routine that covers half a day and carries over into the rest of it. The key is how a day begins. Start the Day With a Micro Workout How one starts his or her day is crucial. If one’s first inclination is to grab a donut,…
As a blogger on men’s mental health, I’m often struck by the difficulty some men find admitting they have a problem they can’t resolve themselves. I think some of this is cultural. As a society we don’t treat mental health as seriously as we should. The NHS services for mental health are often seen as the Cinderella services, receiving the least funding and overwhelming demand. I think it’s also something about men. Our instinct when faced with an emotional crisis is to retire to the ‘garden shed’ and try and work it out for ourselves. But we can’t always do…