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, 3 Sep 2022

Exercise and Longevity Part 3

How important is physical fitness for longevity? The Copenhagen study of middle-aged men put figures to the expected years of…

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Saturday, 27 Aug 2022

Exercise and longevity Part 2

Last week I talked about the connection between exercise “volume” and length of life. A bit more on this:  What…

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Saturday, 20 Aug 2022

Exercise and longevity – Part 1

‘I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.’ Woody Allen Length of life…

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Saturday, 20 Mar 2021

SEDENTARY BEHAVIOUR Part 1

What’s that? Sedentary behaviour is any time spent primarily sitting or lying down and which involves expenditure of 1.5 metabolic…

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Saturday, 23 Jan 2021

LONGEVITY part 2

Habitual exercise and lifespan I indicated last week that lifelong exercisers live longer than their more sedentary friends.  Is it…

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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, 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, 2 Nov 2019

DOGS AS EXERCISE MACHINES

One commentator on my first Blog (on high blood pressure) recounted the good effects of dog walking on his own…

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