An Uncertain Future
After an unexpected heart attack, I’m faced with a few new issues that I don’t yet understand. The future is less certain than it once appeared to be.
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Creating a Public Measured Six Minute Walk
Creating a Public Measured Six Minute Walk You will have seen in parks and on footpaths painted marks made by runners or athletic clubs that define distances, or start and finish lines. Too often these are not very useful to the public because they are not well positioned and do not have clear signage. You
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Walking for Metabolic Health
Walking for Metabolic Health The poor chronic health of most people in our modern societies isn’t caused by a lack of medical care. The cause is more fundamental it’s poor self maintenance. The big question both the public and our political leaders avoid, is why is this happening and how do we fix it? I’ve
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How do you PREVENT future ill health?
How do you PREVENT future ill health? You can understand, that in the nuclear industry it’s critical that there are no “accidents” and there is a plan to PREVENT failures. Moreover, everyone who works there has to understand the plan and be personally committed to the success of the prevention program. If there is an
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Prevention is Your Health Goal
Prevention is Your Health Goal I don’t need to tell you that as people get older they begin to have health issues. The question is, can those issues be prevented or delayed? There is a very clear answer to that question, of course delay is possible, and very often prevention is also possible. in this
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Hurray for Fitify App
Hurray for Fitify App I was using the Fitify Phone App as a home exercise program for three years. 18 months ago, I stopped doing that in favour of going to a very well-equipped gym. That has worked well for me, particularly in developing an ability to shift heavier weights in safety. The gym also
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Five Kilometers Under Sixty Minutes.
Five Kilometers Under Sixty Minutes. To walk five kilometres in sixty minutes is a worthwhile and achievable goal for almost everyone. But if that seems a long way off today, the important thing is to START, working towards that objective. The graph above from the Dunedin Study shows that at age 38, people tended to
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This is your Life; Your Choice
This is your Life; Your Choice In a long life many things can happen, but seldom is it the case that events, or plain bad luck make a substantial difference to how one’s life turns out. In Open Future Health, we argue that too many people lose 10 or 15 years of healthy life because
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Horray for parkrun
Horray for parkrun Parkrun is now available in 22 countries worldwide. Started in the UK 20 years ago, it’s become a wonderful opportunity for families, for the socially isolated, for the fit and the unfit, for many volunteers and supporters to share an hour on Saturday morning. A global charity, parkrun’s mission is to improve
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Reversing Type II Diabetes
Reversing Type II Diabetes There are three ways to reverse Type II Diabetes, bariatric surgery, a very low calory diet or a very low carbohydrate diet. Open Future Health has always considered the late Dr Sarah Hallberg the expert on this topic and her page in the expertise section of this website is here. There
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Time to Catch Up
Time to Catch Up “In view of the rapid growth of evidence around carbohydrate restriction and Type II Diabetes, and the global guideline adoption, we simply ask why NZ is not at least including a carbohydrate restriction approach in its guidelines, alongside other dietary approaches, to manage Type II Diabetes.” We now call upon NZ