The Age-Well Project - Change the way you age

TAKE YOUR EYES FOR A WALK

How are your eyes? Your night vision? Your short-range sight? Eye experts now predict that by 2050, half of the world’s population will suffer from myopia. Sixteen months of living, working and learning on screens has exacerbated our deteriorating eyesight. One poll found that 38% of Britons believed their eye sight had worsened as a...

WHAT REALLY HAPPENS WHEN WE WALK?

Are you sitting down? You won’t be sitting for much longer. I can guarantee that by the time you’ve finished reading this, you’ll either be on the move, or itching to get up and … walk. Yes, I’m back to my favourite subject: the extraordinary power of being on foot (there’s still time to sign...

WALKING, APPETITE, PURPOSE AND A WEBINAR

It’s a week to the publication of my new book on walking in nature. To celebrate, my next few posts will be on some of the astonishing (and often little-known) benefits of walking. We hope you’ll also join our free book launch webinar – details below. May and June are our favourite months for moving...

To menopause and beyond! Bodies, brains (and beetroot hummus)

In the last couple of weeks, our social media feeds – and real-life conversations – have exploded with discussion about the menopause in the wake of Davina McCall’s documentary on Channel 4, Sex, Myths and the Menopause. If you missed it, there’s a link here. The programme is a brilliantly-made polemic about how healthcare providers,...

MEMORY, MOVEMENT, MUSHROOMS AND MORE

If your house is anything like mine, it’s full of revising students. And if they’re constantly on their screens, you might want to tell them about a new study from the University of Tokyo which found greater memory and recall when we write on paper rather than tapping onto a laptop. The researchers think that...