Saturday, 6 Sep 2025
Frailty again
The outcome of all I have been discussing over the past few blogs is the…
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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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Saturday, 17 May 2025
More about running
Hash House Harriers I am a great fan of parkrun but this is not the only example of running-as-fun as…
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Saturday, 3 May 2025
Exercise is Medicine Part 5 – The case for running
I do not usually give advice about what particular exercise you should take. I hold that since all exercise is…
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Saturday, 19 Apr 2025
Exercise is Medicine Part 4
Prescribing exercise Who is the prescriber? Doctors, nurses and other medical personnel are the usual practitioners and, added to these,…
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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, 22 Mar 2025
Exercise is Medicine Part 2
Prescribing Exercise You do not have to be a doctor to prescribe exercise. However, written advice about exercise often carries…
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