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Cancer You may have noticed this story in the news: Over 40% of cancers due to lifestyle. If not, click here for the story, and click here for an explanation of the story from the excellent NHS “behind the headlines” website (I love this place, it explains the millions of health related stories you read … Read more
Booze
Is a small drink good or bad for you? Does a small glass in the evening give you health benefits? Read this special report from the NHS for an analysis on “the media’s relationship with research on alcohol, the science behind it, and what all this means for us when we consider raising a glass.” The report covers:
Harvard School of Public Health – Healthy Eating Plate
The Harvard School of Public Health has just published their Healthy Eating Plate (click here). I am going to use this Healthy Eating Plate in conjunction with their Healthy Eating Pyramid (click here) and my 10 Simple Rules for healthy eating (click here) as the basis for helping people improve their diet. Click here to go to the Harvard website explaining everything, or read the following quote I shamelessly stole off them…
Supplements
Supplements. Do you take them? Do you know what they are? Are they worth the money we spend on them and are they even actually safe for us? If you don’t know the answer to any of these, click here to find out. This NHS report gives you unbiased information from actual science studies (not from an advertising exec.) on:
Abdominal fat Click here (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13222192) for the news story. It says how where you carry your bodyfat can have a big impact on your health and risks of disease. It talks about the waist/hip ratio. Or how much fat you are carrying around your belly. This is a very easy measurement to take. In fact, you can … Read more
Back Pain
Last year, I ranted about how a guy I knew was being prevented to exercise and rehabilitate his injuries because his solicitor said it would jeopardise his compensation claim (click here for details). Well, today I was doing some research on back pain and stumbled on the following webpage (click here). It talks about recovery times for people with low back pain, and how various factors affected these recovery times. Then I read the following sentence:
Pregnant Weight Training A while ago I wrote some posts about exercise during pregnancy (click here, here, here and here). So here is a little bit extra on the subject. I want to direct you to a new bit of research done to test the safety of resistance training for pregnant women (click here for … Read more
One of my favorite websites I keep going back to for reliable information, is a section on the NHS site they call “Behind the Headlines” (click here). Here they take a look at some of the major health stories in the papers, and give you the facts. Take a look at just a few of the ways the papers blow a health story out of all proportion, and you will understand why one of my favorite saying at the moment is:
Stretching before running does not necessarily prevent injury a US study of over 2,700 has suggested. Click below for the full story:
If you are a woman and if you go to the gym, please take 5 minutes to read this: http://www.excelsiorgroup.co.uk/blog/being-woman-gym-diary-intern Almost every other day I talk to a woman in work who refuse to do anything that does not involve little pink dumbells in fear of “turning into a man”.
www.foodafactoflife.org.uk
Food, a fact of life – www.foodafactoflife.org.uk I can’t remember how I stumbled on this webpage, but it is aimed at school teachers/parents trying to teach healthy nutrition to kids. Having said that, I know for a fact that most adults (myself included) can learn a lot from it. Just some of the things on the webpage include:
Taking lots of breaks from sitting at a desk is good for the waistline and heart health, research suggests. Click here to read the news story in full. Research showing that if you sit around all day, you will get unhealthy. But if you regularly get up on your feet (even for a minute or so) you can improve your health. Click here to download the actual study paper. Some practical tips from the story:
5 simple things anyone can do to help them manage their weight. Click below to see the video clip explaining them:
This link (click here) is by James Marshall. He is a fantastic strength and conditioning coach who trains many people (including international athletes). Here he lists some of the most important things you have to get right to become a better elite athlete. And if you think it includes some secret, mystical exercises with the … Read more
There are a couple of sentences in there that jumped out at me:
I was shown this internet blog (click here) by a nutritionist friend of mine. It shows a few ways to “trick” yourself into eating better. I especially like it because it uses actual, real world marketing tricks that supermarkets use to make us buy the things they want us to buy. And I am a … Read more
Someone just showed me this UTube video…
I’ve talked before about increasing a persons “Background Activity” (click here, and here) to help improve their health and weight. And it looks like New York city has the same idea! Click here for a BBC documentary about how architects in New York are trying to make it harder for people to get about in order to give people more exercise.
I don’t have kids, so there are some problems that I have (thankfully!) never experienced. One of these problems is how to get your kids to eat enough fruit and veg. But my friend who does have children asked me this the other day…so if you have this problem, try reading the following link…
