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Leeds Rhinos, in partnership with the Change 4 Life Team at the Department of Health and the Centre for Men's Health at Leeds Metropolitan University are pleased to offer our male fans a range of health advice services on match days during the 2010 Super League season.
Free health checks are being offered by the specialist nurses from Men's Health Plus, before, during and after the match. These will be held in the bar areas, but private consultations are also available.
To put your name down for one of the groups or want further information please ring freephone 0800 7311 170 or email menshealth@leedsmet.ac.uk
Leeds Rhinos XL Factor Weight Programme
The group that helps you lose it! What is the 10% course?10% is the weight loss programme run by the NHS Leeds Community Healthcare Weight Management Service and Leeds Rhinos. 10% helps people make lasting dietry and activity changes aimed at losing weight.
How long do the courses last? The courses run for 8 weeks, each session lasting 1 hour and 30 minutes. This includes a 45 minute education session followed by 45 minutes of low level physical activity. Following the course, participants are signposted to physical activity sessions in their local area. • An 8 weeks course run by the NHS Leeds Community Healthcare Weight Managment Services & Leeds Rhinos • 45 minutes talk • 45 minutes physical activity • Learn about healthy eating, what to stop, swop and shrink • Learn that fun is the best gym! 21st April - 9th June 6.30 - 8.15 Train where your heroes train Session 1 Introduction (free) An introduction to the course No physical activity this week Weigh and measure Food and exercise diary Explanation and overview of course including expectations Session 2 - Review food & activity diaries and stepping stones Plus an introduction to the physical activity session Food/Activity diary checklist ( aid with goal setting). Goal setting stone tool. Session 3- Making changes Plus 45 minute physical activity session Decisional balance. Visualisation change. Road to weight successful what they do) Session 4 - The Eatwell plate and portion size Plus 45 minute physical activity session Days diets (compare). Portion sizes. Goal setting. Session 5 - activity do it, how much, how hard? Plus 45 minute physical activity Benefits. Different ways creative ideas. Intensity levels. Session 6 - Maintaining changes Plus 45 minute to the gym session slips and trips (reducing of relapse, identify why). 5 chapters poem in layman's terms cycle of change)
Session 7 (Choice Session) Food labels / takeaway / health cooking / 4. Plus 45 minute instructor led exercise session Session 8 - The forward / Evaluation Plus 45 minute exercise session
Please contact to book a place 0113 295 32 62
Manual for men's health launched
A new straight-forward, straight-talking guide for men's health - in the style of a car manual - is being launched. The project brings together a range of partners including Leeds Met, the Department of Health Yorkshire and Humber, the Men's Health Forum, the NHS and Leeds Rugby.
Funded and commissioned by the Department of Health as part of its Change4Life programme, 'Yorkshire Man: A practical step-by-step guide' is designed to look like a car manual and is a guide to health promotion specifically for men in the region, reflecting men's views about the sort of information they want and how it should be presented.
To launch the Yorkshire Man, Leeds Met's Professor of Men's Health and Chair of the Men's Health Forum, Alan White, alongside Leeds Rhinos captain Kevin Sinfield and Ronnie the Rhino, will be giving away copies of the manual and speaking to men about their health issues outside the new Leeds Rhinos shop in the St Johns Centre.
The guide forms part of the Tackling Men's Health partnership between Leeds Met and Leeds Rhinos, which delivers health promotion messages and screening for fans at Headingley Carnegie Stadium on match days.
Kevin Sinfield commented: "We are delighted to be part of this worthwhile project. Health is something that is very important to us as athletes but it is just as important for every man. Tackling Men's Health and the Change4Life scheme are great initiatives. Let's hope we can play a small part in their success."
Professor White - who was the world's first Professor of Men's Health - explained why a guide for men in Yorkshire is needed. He said: "There is very little health information that has been specially focused at men, which leaves many of us unaware of what is and is not important when it comes to our wellbeing. We hope that the Yorkshire Man mini-manual will provide an easily understood reference guide for men that can give them the information they need to make the right choices with regard to their health.
"Having a Yorkshire identity is very important for many men living in this region. Having this book focused not only onto our health needs but also providing details of services that are available locally makes it relevant to us all."
Dr Ian Banks, President of the Men's Health Forum, is the writer of its series of men's health mini-manuals and commented: "The latest in the mini-manuals has taken the concept to a new level. Others in the series, such as 'Self-Care for Minor Ailments", have been really popular with men. I am sure that 'Yorkshire Man' will be even more successful."
Jane Riley, Associate Director of Public Health for the Yorkshire and Humber region, added: "The Yorkshire Man guide has been written for men of all ages right across the region. We know that Yorkshire men are proud of their region and their reputation for working hard, doing well and having fun: whether it's at work, with their families or on the sports field.
"The guide aims to give them the sort of information they want, in the way they want it. It has been written with the input of men from the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and we hope that all men across the region will find something in it that will help them improve their own health, reduce their stress levels and get the most out of their lives."
The guide links to further sources of information including the NHS and a range of high quality websites and guidance, including the associated and dedicated website which has been developed alongside the manual, http://www.menshealthforum.org.uk/, and has been awarded the Crystal Mark by the Plain English Campaign.
• Leeds Metropolitan University has 30,000 students and over 300,000 associate students through its partnerships with 24 colleges.
• The University has achieved its best ever Research Assessment Exercise results. Sports-Related Studies is in the top 6 institutions in the country with research rated at the highest levels of 4* and 3*.
• The University scored highly in the Times Higher's Student Experience and was ranked 2nd in the category 'Good library and library opening hours'.
• Leeds Metropolitan University won the 'Coaching Environment of the Year' award at the sports coach uk 2008 UK Coaching Awards and was announced as the home of the UK Centre for Coaching Excellence.
• The University is home to The UK Centre for Coaching Excellence.
• Leeds Met Carnegie is the primary partner of rugby league's Carnegie Challenge Cup.
• The Men's Health Forum, founded in 1994, is a charity working to improve the health of men and boys across England & Wales through the development of health services that meet men's needs and to enable men to change their risk-taking behaviour. For more information visit http://www.menshealthforum.org.uk/ and the Forum's consumer site http://www.malehealth.co.uk/
Useful sources of health advice for men
Your GP
NHS Direct
www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk
ring - 0845 4647
For advice on losing weight:
• www.eatwell.gov.uk
For advice on stopping smoking:
• http://smokefree.nhs.uk
For advice on exercise and keeping active:
• www.malehealth.co.uk/userpage1.cfm?item_id=298
