{"id":1696,"date":"2021-06-14T00:34:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T00:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/?p=1696"},"modified":"2021-05-20T08:49:09","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T08:49:09","slug":"mens-health-week-14th-21st-june-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/2021\/06\/14\/mens-health-week-14th-21st-june-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Health Week 14th &#8211; 21st June 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week is Men&#8217;s Health Week organised by the Men&#8217;s Health Forum.<\/p>\n<p>The focus for 2021 will be Mental Health in a Covid World.<\/p>\n<p>For Men&#8217;s Health Week 2021, the Men&#8217;s Health Forum (MHF) are asking as many people as possible to try the CAN DO Challenge.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, everybody can give their support to the men\u2019s health message by wearing blue. Can you give something else as well?<\/p>\n<p><strong>You CAN DO it for fun. Or you CAN DO it to fundraise.<\/strong> Support your favourite charity.<\/p>\n<p>The five ways to wellbeing are five things we can all do that are scientifically-proven to help us feel better. For the CAN DO Challenge, choose a different way to wellbeing to for each day of Men&#8217;s Health Week.\u200b<\/p>\n<h3>Every day, a different way<\/h3>\n<p>The five ways are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>C<\/strong>onnect &#8211; connect with other people (eg. call an old friend you haven&#8217;t since before lockdown) #connectmonday<\/li>\n<li>(Be)\u00a0<strong>A<\/strong>ctive &#8211; move your body (eg. go for a run\/walk\/swim\/dance\/shag) #activetuesday<\/li>\n<li><strong>N<\/strong>otice &#8211; take notice of the environment around you (eg. turn off your phone for an hour) #noticewednesday<\/li>\n<li><strong>D<\/strong>iscover &#8211; learn something new (eg. read a book you haven&#8217;t read before) #discoverthursday<\/li>\n<li><strong>O<\/strong>ffer (or give) &#8211; do something for someone else (eg. volunteer for a local community group) #offerfriday<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information about Men&#8217;s Health Week please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.menshealthforum.org.uk\/\">https:\/\/www.menshealthforum.org.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week is Men&#8217;s Health Week organised by the Men&#8217;s Health Forum. The focus for 2021 will be Mental Health in a Covid World. For Men&#8217;s Health Week 2021, the Men&#8217;s Health Forum (MHF) are asking as many people as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/2021\/06\/14\/mens-health-week-14th-21st-june-2021\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68830,"featured_media":1698,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1699,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions\/1699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}