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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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PHYSICAL FITNESS, FATNESS AND LIFESPAN
As I said in my previous Blog – “What is physical fitness?” – a recent Mayo Clinic Proceedings editorial discusses…
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