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, 24 Aug 2024

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM)

Last time I promised you a blog about frailty – so forgive me for changing my mind. This week’s blog…

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Saturday, 4 May 2024

Outdoor gyms

One growing feature of the town landscape is the increasing number of outside multi-station gyms. They seem to be springing…

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Tuesday, 12 Sep 2023

Evidence Part 2

A big apology The last blog which you will have received was “Evidence Part 1” on 1st July – with…

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Saturday, 1 Jul 2023

Evidence Part 1

Over the past few months I have taken you through some of the important and, I hope, interesting facts about…

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Saturday, 23 Oct 2021

THE PRESENTATION OF EVIDENCE

Last week I told you how evidence about the effectiveness of different medical treatments is obtained. If this evidence is…

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Saturday, 16 Oct 2021

EVIDENCE

Evidence: Interpreting the Science ‘The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is…

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Saturday, 28 Aug 2021

How good are official exercise recommendations?

Last week I gave you the Department of Health’s recommendations for exercise – This week I am looking at just…

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Saturday, 23 May 2020

MORE ABOUT EVIDENCE

We are repeatedly reminded by politicians that their decisions are dictated by “the science” which is often shorthand for “this…

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Saturday, 16 May 2020

EVIDENCE & HOW TO INTERPRET IT

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. Bertrand…

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