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Physical Health

It's more than the gym. Whether you're taking your first yoga class, choosing healthier foods or deciding to quit smoking, physical health is an important part of gay men's lives. This section provides resources, articles and information about how you can live a longer, healthier life. We also have listings for our Professional Volunteers who specialize in physical health.

For the Love of Chocolate

For the Love of Chocolate

Have you ever felt the need to justify little indulgences in your diet?

More Mastication Tips!

More Mastication Tips!

I'm usually a little skeptical of articles with numbers in the titles – like 9 Sex Positions you have to try or  3 reasons why you have to shower –

Cancer Facts for Gay Men

Cancer Facts for Gay Men

Gay men experience different rates of certain types of cancer because of our risk factors

U R What U Eat

U R What U Eat

What you eat is just as important as when you eat and many guys have a hard time swallowing that

Have a Healthy Pride

Have a Healthy Pride

What are you doing this weekend?

Free Blood Glucose Monitoring Kits

Free Blood Glucose Monitoring Kits

Diabetes is a condition that affects roughly 3 million Canadians.  However some of these are unable to afford the equipment to properly manage

Personal Strategic Advisors

Personal Strategic Advisors

Do you feel like you're bogged down or having difficulty with some aspects of your life?

Queers and Addiction

Queers and Addiction

I have typed the words “gay men” or “lesbians” into Google many times in my life for one reason or another. Once I get past the porn, the most common search results I see are those referencing clubs, bars, and parties around town. Are we really a population of party crazed alcoholics as my computer would have us believe?

Prostate Complexities - Pleasure and Pain

Prostate Complexities - Pleasure and Pain

As gay men, most of us are probably very familiar with the intense, euphoric, eye-rolling sensation that our prostate can give us when it’s rubbed the right way.

Cut the Fat in your Budget: Tips for the Smart and Savvy Grocery Shopper

Cut the Fat in your Budget: Tips for the Smart and Savvy Grocery Shopper

Most people seem to think that loading their grocery carts with healthy foods is going to cost them a fortune.

A Sweet Threat: Steps to Preventing and Managing Diabetes

A Sweet Threat: Steps to Preventing and Managing Diabetes

Diabetes
Diabetes affects over 3 million Canadians and is definitely no stranger to the gay community.

Nutrition, the Fatabase and Food Diaries

Nutrition, the Fatabase and Food Diaries

Keeping (Gay) New Years Resolutions

Hangovers are great times to reflect.  So in the wake of an autumn hangover I decided to evaluate my 2010 resolutions.  

10 foods to make you happier

10 foods to make you happier

Overindulging

Overindulging

Carb Rinse

Carb Rinse

Age Gracefully by Eating Well

Age Gracefully by Eating Well

Oral Health

Oral Health

Sugar in the Gas Tank

Sugar in the Gas Tank

Trucks can be cute, sexy, rusty, new, old, up-on-blocks; the variety is endless. Like our bodies. High performance is good, but it requires upkeep and good fuel. Like a high performance vehicle, our own bodies convert fuel/food into energy.

Drink It Up!

Drink It Up!

I spent last summer on Vancouver Island. I was surrounded by water; but they were rainless months. Elsewhere, vast parts of the province were on fire, in particular the Okanagan.