Saturday, 19 Dec 2020
FRAILTY PART 4
Healthspan The desirability of decreasing the period of dependency at the end of life cannot…
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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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Friday, 27 Nov 2020
FRAILTY PART 1
The genesis of Frailty For the past six months I have been writing about all the degenerative diseases which assail…
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Friday, 20 Nov 2020
EXERCISE AND OSTEOPOROSIS
What is osteoporosis? Osteoporosis is the process of loss of calcium from bone with consequent fragility and increased risk of…
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Saturday, 14 Nov 2020
EXERCISE AND THE CORONA VIRUS – AGAIN
Well, here we go again The emergence of the second wave of the pandemic and the subsequent Lockdown brings me…
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Saturday, 7 Nov 2020
EXERCISE AND THE MANAGEMENT OF CANCER
Exercise in the treatment of cancer Exercise is attracting increasing attention as a treatment for cancers. Regular exercise can reduce…
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Saturday, 31 Oct 2020
EXERCISE AND CANCER
Cancers form a very large group of conditions which are extremely common causes of disease, disability, suffering and death. Nearly…
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Saturday, 24 Oct 2020
EXERCISE AND LUNG DISEASE
Lung disease The secret of longevity is to keep breathing. Sophie Tucker Lung disease encompasses a large collection of widely…
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Saturday, 17 Oct 2020
EXERCISE AND THE TREATMENT OF DEMENTIA
Does exercise improve brain function in dementia? Maybe. There are theoretical reasons to believe that the failing brain might be…
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Saturday, 10 Oct 2020
EXERCISE AND THE PREVENTION OF DEMENTIA
Dementia, a modern pandemic Dementia is an advancing modern scourge and has recently been reported to have overtaken coronary heart…
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Saturday, 19 Sep 2020
PARKINSON’S DISEASE
What is Parkinson’s disease? Parkinson’s disease (PD) was originally described as “the shaking palsy” by James Parkinson in 1817. The…
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