Spring is here and with it comes a boost of enthusiasm and motivation as people begin peeling off the layers, heading out for walks and enjoying the sunshine. If you are about to ‘step up’ your exercise program, take some…
A recent article in Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition & Metabolic Care (ahead of print) discussed the role that strength training could play in helping overweight children engage with regular exercise to improve their health outcomes. The review states that one…
A recent study in the British Medical Journal has shown that increasing physical activity in middle age reduces mortality risk at a comparable level to quitting smoking. The study followed 50 year old men over a 35 year period and…
I’ve recently come across a really interesting article titled ‘Are obese physicians effective at providing healthy lifestyle counselling?’. This is a reflective piece of writing by an American physician looking at how important role modelling behaviour was for doctors in…
