Why do you think there’s a male loneliness epidemic in the UK?

I think this is the most honest answer. Media has for decades focussed on the underweight and lower half of the healthy bmi range. This caused many women who were not fat to crash diet over the decades promoted again in womens magazines and media. The net result is women's biology then rebels and they gain back what they lost and more as their bodies try to epidemiologically protect them from starvation. Media has a lot to answer for here in deliberately fircing the gender war to be created. The age that most girls have a figure and weight like Keira Knightly or Natalie Portman or many models is when they are teenagers. Most men have been socialised to want fit, trim, takes care of herself or whatever you want to call it women but in reality its the thinnest 37% of the population in the healthy or underweight bmi range. Roughly 80% of men are all trying to date this same 37% of women whilst the 63% in the overweight or obese category are largely not even considered for serious relationships by the majority of men. Statistically some people can lose weight and keep it off but the majority can't as our bodies have evolved over centuries to hold onto body fat as protection. The stats on a morbidly obese woman going back to a normal weight and maintaing it without medical intervention is 1 in 677. The number of men competing to try to get the "hottie" is truly rediculous. None of us stay looking like that forever anyway..........and a woman is valuable for much more than her looks. If more men could see that there would be markedly less of the loneliness epidemic.