Movember is here!
Movember 2nd - Coach Eli
As many of you probably already know, it’s Movember. For those of you who don’t what that is, it’s part men’s health awareness event, part fundraiser, and part excuse to grow an awesome mustache–details here. As only a select few of you who have seen me in the few hours after I’ve shaved, or who have sent me on a travel assignment at camp that I didn’t want to go on, know firsthand, I look really, really terrible–like, “Get in my LeBaron!” terrible–with a mustache (see picture left for someone you would never allow within a two-mile radius of your child).
But I refuse to let social norms, terrified parents, or an inability to walk through a school zone without a SWAT Team descending, deter me from my goal this month: raising awareness about and funds for men’s health issues, primarily prostate cancer. So if you share my belief that sometimes men need to be prodded to talk about important issues like their health, and that maybe growing a mustache for a month is just the way to do it, I encourage you to sign up and join the Movember campaign yourself, donate to my fundraising page, or just talk to an important man in your life (father, brother, uncle, the pizza delivery guy, that hunky construction worker you pass during your commute, whoever) about what he’s doing to take care of himself and his health.
I know this might seem silly to some of you (and the mustache element does very little to undermine that position, I suppose), but here are a couple key statistics that really drive home the importance of men’s health and prostate cancer awareness:
*1 in 6 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in his lifetime
*A man is diagnosed with prostate cancer every 2.2 minutes
*1 in 2 men will be diagnosed with cancer in his lifetime
*Men are 24% less likely to go the doctor than women
So, celebrate Movember with me by growing a mustache and making sure the men in your life are doing everything they can to preserve their health. And, even if you’re not gonna do that, at least check back here for regular photo updates on my mustache.
Happy Movember!
Coach Eli Asch, Team Tempo Multisport
Tags: cancer, men's health, movember, mustache, Team Tempo
