Greater Milwaukee Men

Temar Boggs after saving the girl 15 year-old Temar Boggs and another teen named Chris joined a group of first responders in the search for a missing little girl in Pennsylvania. Jocelyn Rojas, 5-years old, went missing. The search began in earnest with family, neighbors and law enforcement all involved. Few would have expected that two teens on bikes would not only help, but succeed in finding and rescuing Jocelyn.

CBS wants you to save your bacon, and by bacon they mean skin. Well done CBS - an important health message PSA in just 17 seconds and fun/clever way to get it across. I know when I say "Bacon " all the guys around me pay attention. I also appreciate how it references the "This is your brain on drugs" ads of about 20 years ago.

Froedtert & Medical College of Wisconsin and Children's Hospital of Wisconsin are putting on a two-part seminar to put concussion safety in the forefront among both amateurs and professionals. Come see former Packer Dorsey Levens Everyone is invited to attend their  Stay Ahead Of The Game event, a free concussion awareness and safety event from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, July 30, 2013 at Miller Park. Attendees can meet Dorsey Levens, former Green Bay legend and world champion. With the summer and fall sport seasons right around the corner, now is the time to learn what all athletes, parents, coaches and officials should know about sport-related concussions from medical experts from Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin and Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin. Dinner will be provided. A Dorsey Levens autograph and photograph session will follow the event (please bring your own camera). RSVP required by July 24, 2013. To register or for more information, please...

Well-Met Men seeks to always increase the awareness of wellness among the men of Milwaukee and we love to highlight others with a similar mission. Brain Brawn & Body is one such site. Launched in eary 2013, BBB is very similar in philosophy to Well-Met, seeking to promote wellness in all areas of life of Milwaukee men, but they focus on African American men - an audience that needs and deserves its own focus seeing as according to BBB 'Blacks bear a disproportionate burden of disease, injury, disability and death.' Through their website and an annual publication, they seek to: provide sound health and medical information and proper guidance to a population that might not, otherwise, receive this information and is often overlooked help African American males become healthy and well informed; address the issue of health disparities experienced by African Americans

I know right. Ice cream for a man's product review? I counter with: whiskey. Milwaukee's own Purple Door Ice Cream  is not only an amazing product, but they do everything right in making their ice cream to be truly considered a Great Men's business. Ice cream may not be up there with the typical man food like steak & potatoes and beer, but many brands have flavors that are still appealing to the manliest of men like salted caramel or coffee. Purple Door takes the cake though with their whiskey-flavored ice cream made with another Milwaukee product - Great Lakes Distillery's  Kinnickinnic Whiskey. That's double-Milwaukee which means double the goodness.

This year, in addition to the players, MLB  and People Magazine are recognizing people who are true heroes, military men and women, via their Tribute For Heroes program. From thousands of nominees three people were selected for each team. One winning candidate from each team will win a chance to attend and be recognized at the 2013 MLB® All-Star Game® in New York, and one will be featured in PEOPLE magazine. So head on over and vote, you can do as many times as you want. The three outstanding representatives for the Brewers are here .

Y Men? Is it our very genetics that make us live shorter lives than women? For Men's Health Month and Week , we highlighted the top 7 health risks for men. I hope it helped to read about them and learn how to avoid them. But in the end, our very maleness  could be the single biggest factor for health risks and premature death in men. That is both genetically and characteristically. Robert Krulwich just wrote an article on NPR's website about Why Men Die Younger Than Women   and in it he describes various reasons from a paper called " Why Men Die Younger ," by Seattle actuary Barbara Blatt Kalben. Anything from size (note that small dogs usually live far longer than big dogs) to testosterone are possible but the last item to me is the most intriguing - that data from the Mayo Clinic mined by an essayist in 1934 showed that "mere maleness" is a predictor of greater mortality, that something about being male "influences unfavorably the resistance ......