Category: Health Diary
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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 be older than their biological…
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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 they make poor lifestyle choices. Good…
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Fitness for Older Adults
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,…