Saturday, 27 Feb 2021

ENCOURAGING EXERCISE part 3

Getting everyone moving more The British Heart Foundation 2015 publication “Physical activity statistics” includes a number of ideas for increasing…

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Saturday, 20 Feb 2021

ENCOURAGING EXERCISE Part 2

Adults In adult life the main bar to exercise is the lack of time resulting from gainful employment and/or bringing…

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Sunday, 14 Feb 2021

ENCOURAGING EXERCISE Part 1

The need to encourage exercise Every study which has been performed confirms that the level of exercise taking in the…

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Saturday, 6 Feb 2021

THE SOCIAL & ECONOMIC COSTS OF INACTIVITY Part 2

The cost of an aging population While the NHS provides some social care services to those with significant health-related care…

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Saturday, 30 Jan 2021

THE SOCIAL & ECONOMIC COSTS OF INACTIVITY Part 1

“If we had a drug in our therapeutic armamentarium that conferred all the benefits of regular exercise it would be…

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Friday, 8 Jan 2021

YOGA

  Guest Blog This week’s offering is a departure – a guest blog. It has been submitted by Melina at…

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Thursday, 31 Dec 2020

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Now is the accepted time to make your annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving the road to…

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Saturday, 30 Nov 2019

EXERCISE AND CHILDREN

WHO Report1 The international recommendations on physical activity are for young people to take an hour of moderate to vigorous…

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Saturday, 16 Nov 2019

RUNNING, DISEASE AND MORTALITY

I try to be a bit topical in these blogs, writing about recent publications, studies and reports on exercise related…

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Saturday, 9 Nov 2019

DOCTORS AND EXERCISE

When, in the 1960s, the information about the ill effects of smoking became known, the medical profession was the first…

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