Happy New Year and a guest blog

Happy New Year and a guest blog

New Year Resolutions What are the most popular New Year resolutions? Well here they are: Exercise more Lose weight Get organized Learn a new skill or hobby Live life to the fullest Save more money / spend less money Quit smoking Spend more time with family and friends...
Happy Christmas

Happy Christmas

At this time of year, the British Medical Journal can be relied on to publish light-hearted but topical articles. This year’s offerings include two such articles looking at exercise: Study 1 “A Christmas themed physical activity intervention to increase...
An overview of exercise

An overview of exercise

Over the past three and half years I have written nearly 200 of these blogs. I have tried to take you through a description of what exercise does, how it works, what it does for us, its effects on a large variety of diseases, both for prevention and treatment, how it...
Planning your weight loss strategy

Planning your weight loss strategy

Christmas is coming with the probability that we will gain a little (?) weight over the festive season. This might be mitigated by some pre-Christmas prophylaxis. A touch of weight loss now will allow us a bit more dietary freedom on the 25th. I have written before on...