Saturday, 1 Jun 2024

Bits and pieces

I may seem to believe that exercise is the answer to all the world’s medical problems and then some. This…

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Saturday, 18 May 2024

Having babies

Exercise before and during pregnancy  are fertile grounds for uncertainty and the growth of myths. After all, even the labels…

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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, 27 Jan 2024

Recent Advances – Diabetes

In my last blog I said that I had finished with obesity for the time being – but maybe that…

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Saturday, 30 Dec 2023

Recent Advances. Weight Management Pt2

Medication has become the hot topic in the control of body weight. For decades we have seen different drugs come…

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Saturday, 2 Dec 2023

Recent advances Part 1

If you read my blogs from the first published in June 2019 you will find, I hope, a logical series…

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Saturday, 23 Sep 2023

Obesity Part 1 – drug treatment

This week’s illustration is the Willendorf Venus, circa 25,000 BC, the oldest known man-made representation of the human form. There…

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Saturday, 26 Feb 2022

Diabetes Part 2

Illustration This week’s illustration is a histogram showing the effect of different degrees of weight loss on the remission of…

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Saturday, 19 Feb 2022

Diabetes Part 1

T2DM Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is what we are talking about. Type 1 DM is something else, although it…

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Saturday, 29 Aug 2020

PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE

Atheroma and Peripheral Vascular Disease (PVD) The cause of PVD Atheroma – popularly known as “hardening of the arteries” –…

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