Saturday, 13 Dec 2025
Exercise for treating cancer
Apologies So sorry that there was no blog two weeks ago – this was due…
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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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Sunday, 2 Nov 2025
Exercise in the prevention of cancer
Cancer is a word, not a sentence Cancer and exercise Cancers form a very large group of conditions that are…
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Saturday, 4 Oct 2025
Frailty yet again
I regularly scan the medical literature for articles about all sorts of conditions which relate to physical activity or lack…
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Sunday, 21 Sep 2025
Frailty again – and again!
I have long believed that the enormous and growing problem of frailty in later life is the chief source of…
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Saturday, 6 Sep 2025
Frailty again
The outcome of all I have been discussing over the past few blogs is the frailty of old age –…
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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, 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, 14 Jun 2025
Exercise and cancer management
Exercise and cancer – A significant advance Physical fitness and risk of cancer The risk of developing number of different…
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Saturday, 31 May 2025
Running – the side effects
Last time I discussed the prescribing of exercise, particularly running. I mentioned that Dr Margaret McCartney had written a BMJ…
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