Men's Health Week: A manual for healthy living - and what it is to be a man today

Men who lead an unhealthy lifestyle are more likely to get ill and have a shorter lifespan than women. Ahead of Men’s Health Week, We look at the nationwide drive to target different sectors of the male population

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Finian Murray has a parable about how health can be in the eye of the beholder.

“There is a story I heard one time about a guy going on a sun holiday, and he died out there, and when he came back, he was laid out and people said, ‘Sure, he looks like the picture of health, the holiday did him the world of good’.”