The easiest way to get healthier, and a simple way to lose weight, is simply to move around a bit more, and the easiest way to do this is to walk a bit more than you do now. The small populations of hunter gatherers that still exist walk about 6-10km/day. If you measured that on […]
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How many hours would you guess that you sit on your backside? Studies have been done showing that the average person, living in a Western country, spends about 12 hours of their waking time sat down. A lot of this time is made up of being sat down at work and then sat down at
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“I have no time to exercise!” “I hate exercise!” “Even the thought of exercise feels like hard work, let alone doing it!” These are just a few of the more polite things one of my clients had to say to me about exercise. However, she also recognised that it was only by doing some that
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If you’re exercising and not losing weight, chances are you’re doing the wrong sort of exercise for effective weight loss. Some years ago researchers in Canada took two groups of people and gave them two different exercise programs to follow. The first group had the conventional “fat burning” type of exercise and they had to
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If you are like a lot of people you might have a little worry in the back of your mind about getting cancer. Apparently 1 in 3 in the UK gets some sort of cancer during their lifetime so it’s a reasonable concern. Figures are very similar for most western countries. Are there things you
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One of my patients said this to me today. In fact a lot of my patients complain that they have very little energy. They also know that if they did some regular exercise they would have more energy. Some people choose to wait for the energy to arrive first. This puts them into a catch
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Weight loss is hard work without a bit of muscle in your body, which is why muscle and weight loss are like best friends. You can make your job of weight loss a lot easier by building up a bit of the stuff that feeds off fat. This is something not mentioned by most diets. In fact
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Something I have noticed when seeing patients is a strong link between being unhappy with their weight and being generally unhappy. The good news for people who are unhappy with their weight and feeling miserable is that exercise helps both. You don’t have to be depressed and miserable for exercise to boost your mood though,
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I have noticed that a lot of people who come to see me professionally do little exercise. Sometimes I wonder if anyone does any exercise and I have come to the conclusion that they do, they just don’t come to see me very often. A lot of people groan at the thought of exercise as
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