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 has social benefits, you […]
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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 be older than their biological
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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 they make poor lifestyle choices. Good
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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 health and wellbeing,
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This is an Open Letter to the editor of the Journal of Primary Health Care. New Zealand’s slow uptake of carbohydrate-reduction in type 2 diabetes management by Marcus Hawkins GP at the Botany Doctor Medical Practice, and Caryn Zinn from the School of Sport & Recreation, Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity, Auckland University of Technology Submitted:
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Two things have caused me to stop writing this blog for the last year. First, that the low-carb professional community were reluctant to be active, at least in public. I felt that despite the progress we had made, I was like a mad dog barking at a lamp post. Second, that my own health was
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The previous post was about the very overweight RNZ executive Megan Whelan, who discovered that going to the gym and working with a personal trainer did wonders for her confidence and her strength. I’ve been very critical in the past of giving people “Green Prescriptions” so they could attend exercise classes at a discounted rate,
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