What Happens When You Put An Ultra Marathon Runner In A Fat Suit?
If you’ve got access to an ultra-marathon runner and a scientifically-designed “fat suit” that is designed to simulate the experience of being morbidly obese the only sensible course of action is to put those two things together. This was the case with MAN v FAT when the absurdly fit Liam Almond said he’d be happy […]
Can You Cure Type 2 Diabetes?
Type 2 Diabetes is one of the shadows that lurks in the life of the fat man. It’s a disease we know plenty about, but tend to avoid out of fear of what we might find out. The inconvenient truth is that T2 Diabetes is closely linked to weight and that carrying extra weight massively […]
MAN v FAT Comes To Woman’s Hour
MAN v FAT editor Andrew Shanahan was asked to discuss men and weight loss on Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour programme. You can hear the interview below, let us know what you think! If you’d like to join a MAN v FAT Club then you simply take our free Health Report and we’ll let you know […]
Does 10,000 Steps Work For Weight Loss?
Stand-up comedian and MAN v FAT member Freddy Quinne is currently challenging himself to a no-gym weight loss experiment. Rather than spending £30 per month on a gym, he’s spending the same budget on an alternative healthy device. This month he’s spent his cash on a pedometer. The Chinese philosopher and founder of Taoism Lao […]
Join Our Free 30 Day Weight Loss Experiment
I’d like to make you an offer you can’t refuse, I want you to join the MVFIA. Don’t worry, no one’s sleeping with no fishes – MVFIA simply stands for MAN V FAT Intense Accountability. It’s a new, 30 day experiment that is designed to help you achieve your weight loss goals. Don’t worry, it doesn’t […]
Does Happify Work?
Happify is the latest in a long line of online solutions to attempt to cure our brains. As men who want to lose weight there is more often than not a mental element to our battles against fat – whether it’s stress at work, negative thought patterns or something more deep-rooted. We asked MAN v […]
10 Genuinely Surprising Things About Weight Loss
Men’s Health Week starts today and sees a number of initiatives helping to address the horrifying statistic that one in five men dies before he reaches 65. To support this MAN v FAT wants to get over 1,000 men to take our Health Report this week. It’s a simple, three minute quiz which provides you […]
The Ten Commandments Of Dieting Preparation
As the great bard once said: “Sunday, Monday: Happy Days, Tuesday, Wednesday: Happy Days. Thursday, Friday: Happy Days. The weekend comes, my cycle hums – ready to race to you.” Wise words indeed, but absolutely no help whatsoever if you’re looking for advice about dieting. For that we really need to focus on the weekend – that glorious two […]
Five Medications That Are Killing Your Diet
Last week, Harvard researchers predicted that obesity will overtake smoking as the leading cause of cancer within the next ten years. It seems unfair then that many of the drugs doctors prescribe for conditions linked to obesity can cause you to gain weight. We thought it might be helpful to list some commonly prescribed drugs […]
This Dieting Century: how we’ve lost weight in the last ten decades
For our ancestors dieting wasn’t really a concern, most people worried about not having enough to eat and being chased by dinosaurs [RESEARCH THIS LATER] rather than the reverse. It wasn’t until the twentieth century that this began to change, so here’s one hundred years worth of diet crazes that takes us from Fletcherism to 5:2 […]
