Sunday, 19 Oct 2025

Frailty, the follow on

In my last blog I included four exercise programmes which had been published in the position statement of the Italian…

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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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Sunday, 13 Jul 2025

Back to Running

Another word or two about running (though I suppose that this weekend it should be about tennis!) Running and Age…

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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, 15 Jun 2024

Cancers

It is well known that a number of cancers are less common in those who are physically active and also…

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Sunday, 7 May 2023

Golf

Very sorry to be a day late with this post – I did not wish to interrupt your enjoyment of…

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Saturday, 3 Sep 2022

Exercise and Longevity Part 3

How important is physical fitness for longevity? The Copenhagen study of middle-aged men put figures to the expected years of…

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Saturday, 27 Aug 2022

Exercise and longevity Part 2

Last week I talked about the connection between exercise “volume” and length of life. A bit more on this:  What…

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Saturday, 20 Aug 2022

Exercise and longevity – Part 1

‘I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.’ Woody Allen Length of life…

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