Saturday, 3 Apr 2021
Complications of exercise – the heart.
Before launching into my usual stuff about exercise, my apologies to those of you who…
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Saturday, 27 Mar 2021
SEDENTARY BEHAVIOUR Part 2
Sedentary behaviour and cardiovascular disease The more you sit about the higher the risk of developing cardiovascular disease and diabetes…
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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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Sunday, 7 Mar 2021
ENCOURAGING EXERCISE part 5
Some more approaches to promoting exercise Applying the concept of biological age Our chronological age is a measure of how…
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Friday, 5 Mar 2021
ENCOURAGING EXERCISE Part 4 – at work
Guest Blog – thanks to Becca Clayton of Tonic Wellbeing. This continues our current theme of encouraging physical activity –…
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Saturday, 27 Feb 2021
ENCOURAGING EXERCISE part 3
Getting everyone moving more The British Heart Foundation 2015 publication “Physical activity statistics” includes a number of ideas for increasing…
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Saturday, 20 Feb 2021
ENCOURAGING EXERCISE Part 2
Adults In adult life the main bar to exercise is the lack of time resulting from gainful employment and/or bringing…
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Sunday, 14 Feb 2021
ENCOURAGING EXERCISE Part 1
The need to encourage exercise Every study which has been performed confirms that the level of exercise taking in the…
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Saturday, 6 Feb 2021
THE SOCIAL & ECONOMIC COSTS OF INACTIVITY Part 2
The cost of an aging population While the NHS provides some social care services to those with significant health-related care…
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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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