Sunday, 16 Nov 2025

Prehabilitation and cancer

What is Prehabilitation? Prehabilitation, or “prehab,” is a programme of support and preparation for treatment for patients about to undergo…

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Saturday, 23 Aug 2025

More about Lifespan and Healthspan

As I said last time, the crucial contributors to lengthening Healthspan and reducing the period of poor health at the…

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Saturday, 9 Aug 2025

Healthspan and Lifespan

Back to Healthspan, one of my principal obsessions. Lifespan is the total length of a person’s life but  Healthspan is…

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Saturday, 5 Apr 2025

Exercise is Medicine Part 3

Prescribing exercise Although there are powerful arguments that exercise is medicine, prescribing exercise is very different to prescribing drugs. Drug…

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Saturday, 25 Jan 2025

….and living better for longer

Both lifespan and healthspan are much in the medical news at present. Healthspan Healthspan – as you know or you…

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Saturday, 11 Jan 2025

Looking good……

Dear Reader The basic message which I would like you to get from my blog is that exercise is good…

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Saturday, 28 Dec 2024

Happy New Year – 2025

If we can make it through to next Tuesday this Blog welcomes you  to 2025 -No exercise nagging this week,…

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Saturday, 26 Oct 2024

Frailty – what to do next?

Most of what I write is aimed at telling people why they need to be more active – helping (nagging?)…

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Saturday, 11 Feb 2023

Do we really need more ambulances?

Accessing old blogs Before diving into this week’s blog, I said last time that I would explain how to access…

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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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