this week I'm going to give you a little bit more information on how Movember helps to improve men's health, a guide to calculating an appropriate donation and also an update on how my moustache growing is going.
Movember doesn't just help improve mens health by fundraising for PCF and LiveStrong. Movember also helps to improve men's health by working towards changing attitudes toward health among men. Increasing awareness of and education on men's health issues is a key goal of the Movember initiative. The Movember site estimates that each moustache grown generates 2,413 conversations around men’s health.
Remember that "Knowledge is Power" and the more you know the more efficient action that you can take. For instance, testicular cancer is the most common cancer among American males between 15 and 35 but the overall incidence rate of testicular cancer is very low. However, it is expected that 1 in 6 males will contract prostate cancer. It is estimated that the reasons for why the current state of men's health is as not as good as it could be include attitudes of men toward their health. Men are less likely to regularly schedule a doctor's appointment than women which is not the best idea ever. Having regularly scheduled health checkups can be extremely advantageous to men given that (see link below) a significant percentage of people gain the most health information from a health care provider. Checking up with your medical care provider can also provide you with the opportunity to refamiliarize yourself with your family health history which can give you a better idea of how to manage your health around your individual risks. In addition, having regularly scheduled health check-ups gives you the opportunity for early detection of illnesses and timely treatment before these issues become more serious problems.
Preventative measures are also important when dealing with your health. Beyond preventing things such as testicular and prostate cancers as a motivation, preventative measures such as good diet and exercise benefit all dimensions of your health. Walking to and from class everyday is one of the ways I keep up my exercise on a regular basis. also don't forget to eat your vegetables. It is also important to manage your stress and take time out of your day to do something relaxing (i know from experience that this will help your general sense of well-being).
Through participating in Movember, you can help support their efforts to spread health related information. Particpating can be as simple as directing friends to schedule a health check-up, or pointing them to internet resources. Simply taking in the information provided can provide you with the resources to prompt health-related conversations in the future. Donations to Movember may help enable future campaigns to spread health information to populations without easy access to this knowledge.
So how much would you like to help out? If you think that your standard of living could benefit from a reduced rate of prostate or testicular cancer, then why not donate? follow this handy and completely arbitrary guide on how to calculate your ideal donation:
First, if you are male, decide how much you'd be willing to pay to prevent yourself from contracting and/or dying from prostate/testicular cancer, then divide that by about six. if you are not male this number should probably be zero because females are very unlikely to get prostate cancer.
Then decide how much you'd be willing to spend to prevent one of your male immediate relatives from contracting and/or dying from prostate/testicular cancer, multiply that by the number of immediate male relatives you have and divide that by about six.
Then decide how much you'd be willing to prevent one of your male friends from contracting and/or dying from prostate/testicular cancer, multiply that by the number of male friends you think you have, then divide that by about six.
finally, sum all those numbers and that's your ideal donation! I am donating based on this calculation ($0*1/6+$10*6/6+$5*36/6=around $40) and I hope you'll follow my lead.
lastly, here's a picture of my moustache right now:
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| after 16 days |
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