THE REAL WORLD - HOW MUCH EXERCISE DO WE TAKE?

In previous Blogs I have given an idea of the recommendations of governments and health organisations for the amount of exercise we need to take for the good of our health. Today I will look at how much exercise we actually take. Surveys of How Much? A number of...

MORE ABOUT HOW MUCH EXERCISE

My flow of thought has been interrupted by the dreaded virus - My last non-Covid blog went out on 14th March and spoke about how much exercise we need to take for the sake of our health. Mainly it was about the exercise recommendations of the Department of...

MORE ABOUT EXERCISE IN THE TIME OF CORONA

A bit more about the use and effects of exercise in these dire times. It seems frivolous to consider anything other than the pandemic at the moment. I usually refrain from recommending any particular form of exercise and only comment on specific types of activity if...
HOW MUCH EXERCISE DO YOU TAKE

HOW MUCH EXERCISE DO YOU TAKE

One way for doctors to uncover a patient’s drinking habits goes like this: ask the patient how much he (it is usually a he) drinks and double it. Ask his wife how much he drinks and halve it. Add the two figures together and divide by two and this gives you the...
PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND LIFE EXPECTANCY

PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND LIFE EXPECTANCY

The relationship between how much you do and how long you live is important for all of us. More light has been thrown on this subject by a paper just published in the British Medical Journal. The authors analysed a number of studies with a total of more than 36,000...

DIABETES AND WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY

Leading on from my previous blog, the NHS has now announced a plan to issue people at high risk of Type 2 Diabetes (T2DM) with what they call “wearable technology”. Most of us call these pedometers. Their more sophisticated cousins are called accelerometers. They are...