'I start the day with a bowl of porridge': How diet helps in my prostate battle

Just as a car needs to be serviced, so too do men need to get regular health checks, says actor Joe Conlan who was diagnosed with prostate cancer last year
'I start the day with a bowl of porridge': How diet helps in my prostate battle

Actor Joe Conlan. 

WHEN actor Joe Conlan put out the news on social media earlier this month that he was an ambassador for the Irish Cancer Society he says he felt as if he was pushing the red button.

He hadn’t told many about his prostate cancer diagnosis in January 2019 as he didn’t want to be defined by his illness but now he’s ready to talk. And he’s not going to stop, he tells Feelgood because he plans to “start shouting for men very loudly” to make sure they get regular health checks.

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