Saturday, 25 Jan 2025

….and living better for longer

Both lifespan and healthspan are much in the medical news at present. Healthspan Healthspan – as you know or you…

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Saturday, 11 Jan 2025

Looking good……

Dear Reader The basic message which I would like you to get from my blog is that exercise is good…

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Saturday, 28 Dec 2024

Happy New Year – 2025

If we can make it through to next Tuesday this Blog welcomes you  to 2025 -No exercise nagging this week,…

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Saturday, 26 Oct 2024

Frailty – what to do next?

Most of what I write is aimed at telling people why they need to be more active – helping (nagging?)…

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Saturday, 11 Feb 2023

Do we really need more ambulances?

Accessing old blogs Before diving into this week’s blog, I said last time that I would explain how to access…

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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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Saturday, 16 Jan 2021

LONGEVITY Part 1

This is the bottom line – how long you live. As I have banged on about in the previous blogs,…

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Saturday, 19 Dec 2020

FRAILTY PART 4

Healthspan The desirability of decreasing the period of dependency at the end of life cannot be overstated. We are living…

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Friday, 11 Dec 2020

FRAILTY PART 3

Age and Physical fitness Cardiorespiratory fitness increases through childhood to reach its peak by late teens to early twenties. But…

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Friday, 4 Dec 2020

FRAILTY PART 2

Frailty and Physical Fitness Several surveys have highlighted the low level of fitness in the general population and all confirm…

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