When it comes to advice on healthy eating, particularly with a focus on losing weight, I offer my clients the chance to take my Plant-powered Diet Transformation course. This is a...
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Exercise for cardiac rehabilitation
Introduction As I’ve written in previous blogs (click here), coronary heart disease is the biggest killer in the UK. Not only that, there are 2.3 million people in the UK, who are living with...
Exercise and coronary heart disease risk
Introduction In the last blog (click here) I looked at the prevalence and development of coronary heart disease (CHD). I stated that the modifiable CHD risk factors are: Being physically inactive...
Coronary heart disease – an introduction
Exercise is medicine. Nowhere is this more true than in the area of coronary heart disease (CHD). The positive effects of regular exercise on moderating CHD risk are manyfold. Before we examine...
Chronic inflammation – why is it bad for our health?
Introduction When I read up on how to live the healthiest life I often come across the term chronic inflammation. The research suggests that this could be the root cause of several lifestyle...
How the body adapts to aerobic training
In the last blog (click here) we looked at how the two main measures of aerobic fitness, namely maximal aerobic fitness and long duration aerobic fitness, can be trained. In this article, we will...
Types of aerobic training
Introduction In the last blog (click here), I outlined 10 different measures of fitness. This included aerobic fitness; specifically, maximal aerobic fitness and long duration submaximal work. In...
What is fitness?
I am really looking forward to posting a series of blogs on the subject of fitness. The term fitness means many different things to many different people. Perhaps the most common view of what...
Fibre is a true superfood
Last time out (see the Bean Cuisine blog) I took you on a trip through some of the evidence that high fibre foods like beans and lentils can help us to keep the body weight down. This was through...
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