Sunday, 28 Dec 2025

New Year 2026

Last time I said that this week’s blog would be about the current annual winter crisis in the NHS – …

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Saturday, 26 Jul 2025

7,000 steps – or more?

You will have seen the headlines in Thursday’s news outlets: “Walking 7000 steps a day seems to be enough to…

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Saturday, 28 Jun 2025

Sedentary behaviour

The book review section of my Sunday paper has, as its book of the week, “The Brain at Rest” .…

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Saturday, 9 Mar 2024

The Power of Exercise – guest blog

Guest Blog This week I am having a break – with your fortnightly nag being provided by Nina Edward (many…

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Saturday, 8 Apr 2023

The London Busmen Study

  Exercise in disease prevention: This time I am telling you about one of the landmark studies to investigate the…

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Saturday, 26 Mar 2022

HEART DISEASE Part 3

Exercise in the treatment of CHD The use of exercise for treating coronary disease preceded its use for treating any…

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Saturday, 19 Mar 2022

HEART DISEASE Part 2

Exercise in the prevention of Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) In the UK Back in the 1950s and 1960s, studies of…

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Saturday, 12 Mar 2022

HEART DISEASE Part 1.

It was the management of heart disease which first introduced me, over 50 years ago, to the idea of exercise…

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Saturday, 29 Jan 2022

Abnormal blood fat levels – dyslipidaemia

Dyslipidaemia means undesirable changes in your blood fats. This is a complicated field and what follows is a simplification. Cholesterol…

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Saturday, 22 Aug 2020

EXERCISE TO TREAT CORONARY DISEASE

Exercise for treating Coronary Heart Disease (CHD): Angina Angina pectoris is the tight central chest pain, sometimes radiating to the…

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