Saturday, 3 Dec 2022

Christmas is coming

Dear Reader This week I am giving you a break from my relentless pro-exercise propaganda. Here is a commercial to…

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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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Saturday, 30 May 2020

EXERCISE AND DISEASE

It is time to talk about the health-giving properties of regular exercise and of high levels of cardio-respiratory fitness. Today’s…

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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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Saturday, 19 Oct 2019

PREVENTING FRAILTY

Frailty and physical fitness Frailty is mainly the result of an accumulation of long-term physical inactivity and one or more…

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