MAN v FAT

In Western countries, a significantly greater proportion of men (relative to women) are overweight and obese.  Despite this, relatively few weight loss interventions have been developed that target men.  This lack of male-focused initiatives may be because ‘traditional’ weight loss programmes are unappealing to, what is considered, a ‘hard-to-reach’ population.  However, one programme that appears to appeal to men is the ‘MAN v FAT’ football programme in the United Kingdom.  This encourages men’s participation in a community-based intervention that incentivises weight loss through participation in a football league and, since 2016, has supported the weight loss efforts of several thousand men.  Read more at: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7324325