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...
Christmas is coming

Christmas is coming

Dear Reader This week I am giving you a break from my relentless pro-exercise propaganda. Here is a commercial to encourage you to give my book as a Christmas present to your loved ones, relatives, friends, colleagues etc – as a sure indication of the esteem in...
Sedentary Behaviour Part 2

Sedentary Behaviour Part 2

Last week I reminded you that we all spend far too much time sitting about – and this is dangerous in its own right. Here’s why: The harmful effects of too much sitting The risk of death increases for any sedentary time greater than 7 hours a day. One...
Guest Blog.  Build your own gym.

Guest Blog. Build your own gym.

Dear Reader My mission is to encourage everyone (except the small minority who need no such encouragement) to take more exercise. I avoid giving advice about what form of exercise to take because it is important that to choose something that you enjoy to decrease the...