Saturday, 30 May 2026

The Dangers of Hospital Admission 1

A few years ago I visited an old friend who had been admitted to hospital for treatment of an infection…

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Saturday, 23 May 2026

Healthy Life Expectancy

A Recent Survey from the Office of |National Statistics (ONS) There has recently been a rash of news articles about…

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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, 8 Mar 2025

Exercise is Medicine Part 1

Here are a few quotations to support the idea that “Exercise is Medicine”: “The benefits of regular physical activity on…

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Saturday, 2 Dec 2023

Recent advances Part 1

If you read my blogs from the first published in June 2019 you will find, I hope, a logical series…

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Sunday, 22 Oct 2023

Obesity Part 3.

The causes of obesity In my last Blog I briefly discussed genetics and diet as causes of obesity – but…

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Saturday, 29 Oct 2022

Sedentary Behaviour Part 2

Last week I reminded you that we all spend far too much time sitting about – and this is dangerous…

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Saturday, 22 Oct 2022

Sedentary behaviour Part 1

  ‘My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit.’ Phyllis Diller What is Sedentary Behaviour Sedentary behaviour is any…

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Saturday, 17 Sep 2022

The costs of inactivity

‘If we had a drug in our therapeutic armamentarium that conferred all the benefits of regular exercise it would be…

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Saturday, 19 Jun 2021

THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

The mechanisation of work The inevitable consequence of having machinery take over much of manual work was the reduction of…

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