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‘Baseless claims’ its harder for women to lose weight

Posted on January 28th, 2013

Women have to work harder than men to lose weight and get fit’ the Daily Mail says, reporting that women have to do around 20% more exercise to get the same benefits. The Mail’s coverage on this study is arguably woeful – offering a combination of both misleading and confusing reporting. This was an extremely [...]

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Jeremy Hunt announces dementia as one of his four key health priorities

Posted on November 27th, 2012

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has today announced improving dementia care and treatment as one of his four key priorities between now and the next general election. Recognising that for far too long, people with dementia and their carers have not received the care and support they deserve, Mr Hunt is calling for more early diagnosis [...]

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Regular exercise raises life expectancy: study

Posted on November 8th, 2012

Regular moderate exercise can raise life expectancy — even among people who are overweight, a study said. The analysis, published in PLOS Medicine, pooled self-reported data on physical activities and body mass indexes (BMIs) — a ratio of weight to height — from some 650,000 people aged 40 and older enrolled in one Swedish and [...]

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Could exercise heal a broken heart?

Posted on November 6th, 2012

The Daily Telegraph reports that “vigorous daily exercise could repair damage caused by a heart attack”. It has long been known that the heart muscle can increase in size in response to regular exercise increasing its workload. This has been thought to just be due to the existing heart muscle cells getting bigger. However, this [...]

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Childhood obesity may impact on heart health in later life

Posted on September 28th, 2012

Obese children ‘more likely to have heart attack or stroke in adulthood’,” warns The Guardian. The news is based on a large review from researchers at Oxford University who collated a number of smaller studies carried out over the past few decades, involving a total of 49,220 children, that were looking at whether childhood obesity [...]

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Benefits of exercise

Posted on September 27th, 2012

Step right up! It’s the miracle cure we’ve all been waiting for. It can reduce your risk of major illnesses, such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes and cancer by up to 50% and lower your risk of early death by up to 30%. It’s free, easy to take, has an immediate effect and you don’t need a GP [...]

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Benefits of exercise

Posted on September 14th, 2012

  Step right up! It’s the miracle cure we’ve all been waiting for. It can reduce your risk of major illnesses, such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes and cancer by up to 50% and lower your risk of early death by up to 30%. It’s free, easy to take, has an immediate effect and you don’t need a [...]

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More exercise in your 50s ‘cuts heart disease risk’

Posted on September 14th, 2012

“Exercise in midlife protects heart,” says BBC News, while the Daily Mail tells us that “gardening, walking and DIY in your fifties can cut risk of heart disease”. The news is based on a large study looking at the health of middle-aged people. Researchers found that those who met physical activity recommendations of at least 2.5 [...]

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Healthy lifestyle in your 70s can ‘add six years’ to lifespan

Posted on September 14th, 2012

Being active and living a healthy lifestyle into your 70s can make a huge difference to your life expectancy, the BBC reported today. The story is based on a large Swedish study of people aged 75 and over, which found that those with a healthy lifestyle (such as not smoking and taking regular exercise) lived, [...]

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‘Working yourself to death’ – overtime link to heart disease

Posted on September 13th, 2012

“Working more than eight hours a day raises the risk of heart disease by 80%,” reported the Daily Mail, while The Sun said “overtime’s a killer…literally”. The news is based on a study that pooled the results of previous studies looking at the association between “longer working hours” and coronary heart disease (CHD). Those working [...]

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