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What?
Movember (the month formerly known as November) is an annual charity event held during November. At the start of Movember guys register with a clean shaven face. The Movember participants, known as Mo Bros, have the remainder of the month to grow and groom their Mo, raising money along the way to benefit men's health - specifically prostate cancer and male depression.
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It ends on November 30th. The bro with the best mo is crowned the Man of Movember.
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But it' s not all fun and games, so why the extreme behavior? Which ever way we look at it, men are far less healthy than women. The average life expectancy for men is five years less than for women.
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Why?
Men lack awareness about the very real health issues they face.
There is an attitude that they have to be tough - "a real man" - and are reluctant to see a doctor about an illness or go for regular medical checks.
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Movember aims to change these attitudes and make men's health fun by putting the Mo back on the face of fashion and in the process raise some serious funds for key men's health issues.
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Prostate Cancer: because every year thousands of men die of prostate cancer [ Find out more ]. .
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Depression in Men: because one in six men experience depression at any given time but most don't seek help.
my school is doing it...the teachers are growing their mo's for charity. the students sponsor them. a few of the students are doing it too..
This of course led to some jokes about which female teacher would be joining Movember too. We all know which teacher. She would win if it was a competition. Seriously is the Bearded lady. since she's such a bad teacher, i guess at least she has the circus life to fall back on if she gets fired.But she wont, because our 'acting' principal wont fire her. he'll fire all the good teachers. but that's another topic.
If you guys would like to know more, go to their website.
the whole world is taking part. UK, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, Ireland...dudes, grow a mo'. increase prostate cancer awareness. <3
