How about increased awareness for men's health issues?

[jaylon]

There are always so many organizations out there bringing light to women's health issues; just look at how much breast cancer awareness has taken hold in society. Now, don't get me wrong, I am all for heightened awareness at all levels, but I think men's health issues deserve their time in the spotlight too!

It may be of even greater importance for men, because they don't often open up to their social circle about health problems. Increased awareness on things such as men's prostate health can help make it more socially acceptable for men to be open about their bodies and their health. Who's with me??

[The Edifying Conscience]

It seems to me that it's common place of men of a certain age to have regularly scheduled prostate exams.

As far as starting a prostate movement (pun intended) good luck.

This was an unusual second post.

[rpf1007]

The reason why it appears that there are now a bunch of groups advocating for women's health is because since the dawn of time all medical research until very recently has been done on men and extrapolated to women...assuming that all disease processes would affect men and women the same. But since the same diseases do affect men and women differently (take heart disease as an example) research needs to be conducted for both men and women. This is something that was slow to be realized. Advocates were necessary for women's health since women were dying from things like heart disease (and still are) because their symptoms were different than men's, were thus under-diagnosed and under-treated compared to men.

It is standard of care to screen men by physical exam and PSA for prostate cancer, just as it is standard of care to screen women for breast cancer with mammograms.
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Rachel

[celiacmaine-iac]

As I was reading jaylon's post I was going to reply exactly as you did Rachel. Women's issues received far too little serious attention for a long time. Women were perceived as having the same response to a disease or treatment as men, which has been proven wrong. Thankfully, research is now being directed specifically toward women in areas like heart disease. I think the last time I read the stats, women had a 50% chance of dying within the first week after a myocardial infarction. Not good odds at all.

I do agree with Jaylon that if we were less squeamish as a society about discussing things like prostate health everyone would benefit. Men also need to be aware, that while it's rare, men also get breast cancer. I'll bet you never hear guys discussing that one in the locker room. While this forum probably isn't ultimately the best spot audience-wise for an ongoing discussion of these issues, you should consider starting a blog to bring attention to the issues of men's health. Great topic jaylon!
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Steph

[cruelshoes]

I call B.S. Jaylon has made 2 posts on the forum, and they both make reference to the same website. Neither of them makes any reference to celiac or the GF diet. Methinks he is somehow affiliated with the site he keeps linking to. It smells like spam in here.

Jaylon - Please share with us the story of your celiac diagnosis.
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-Colleen

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