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What does it mean to a healthy man in today’s world?

With a quick flip through my favourite bathroom mag, Men’s Health, it’s apparent that what’s desirable these days are tight abs, big guns, slimmer waists, and a longer, stronger Johnson. While I don’t deny wanting to have any of those things, out of it’s 10 million starry-eyed readers, how many of us look anything like the guy on the cover: chiseled, lean, and meticulously well-groomed? In fact, as the fashion, beauty, and health industries all over the world experience surges in profit, especially here in Canada and the U.S., men are looking more and more the opposite of healthy: un-chiseled, McLean, and plagued by higher rates of cardiovascular diseases and cancers than ever before.

Real Men Eat Green is about exposing the assumptions, beliefs, statements made about what it means to be a man in today’s world and putting them up of the scrutiny of our failing health, lack lustre relationships, and the degradation of our environment. It involves taking the best of what magazines like Men’s Health has to offer in Fitness, Health, and Relationships, filtering out the sh*t, and piecing together an approach to the masculine that celebrates diversity in the male experience; one that recognizes that men want healthy, satisfying, and fulfilling relationships with ourselves, our brothers from another mother, partners, spouses, mothers, fathers, children, and the world around us.

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Tony is a un-chiseled, slightly doughy ’round the midsection but working on it twenty-something, and an aspiring health, fitness, and relationship hobbyist writer/blogger. He hails from Vancouver, BC and is employed in the non-profit sector. He enjoys running, hiking, triathlon, the occasional shot of tequila, and has an internalized fear of man boobs. He believes in social change, community development, and the dismantling of gendered stereotypes in the quest to achieve and maintain healthier minds, bodies, and relationships.