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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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 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. 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 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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I write about a courageous woman, Megan Whelan, Head of Content at Radio New Zealand, who was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes, late in 2021. She took the best officially approved advice, and she worked hard. 12 months later her diabetes is “well managed” which means inevitably getting worse, because officially Type 2 Diabetes is
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Six Minute Walking Speed Test: This is a standard test which is commonly used for older people in a hospital rehabilitation setting.
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