Saturday, 17 Sep 2022
The costs of inactivity
‘If we had a drug in our therapeutic armamentarium that conferred all the benefits of…
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Saturday, 10 Sep 2022
Strength training
It is time that you had a rest from my weekly diatribe and got a new perspective. I am…
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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, 13 Aug 2022
Frailty & Care of the Elderly
I have now sent you five blogs expressing the view that frailty is not inevitable – it is preventable. If…
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Saturday, 6 Aug 2022
Frailty Part 5
I thought that I might have exhausted this topic with four blogs on the subject – but i have touched…
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Saturday, 30 Jul 2022
Exercise for Stress – Guest Blog
Dear Reader It is time that you had a relief from me banging on about the virtues of exercise –…
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Saturday, 23 Jul 2022
Frailty Part 4
We have discussed the nature and consequences of frailty plus the role of exercise (essential!) in the prevention of frailty.…
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Saturday, 16 Jul 2022
FRAILTY Part 3
Lifespan is the duration of our days on this earth. To my mind it is much less important than Healthspan…
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