We’re back! We love the summer but are keen to get cracking with autumn projects – researching a new book on post-menopausal health for me, a book on the less-known benefits of walking for Annabel. But just because we haven’t been posting, it doesn’t mean we haven’t been keeping up with our usual trawl of…
WHY THE TIMING OF OUR EATING AND MOVING MATTERS
No sooner have we mastered exercise and eating – by which I mean we’re eating the rainbow, walking daily and lifting a few weights – than those pesky scientists discover it’s timing that matters. OK I exaggerate. But recent studies suggest that when we move is almost as important as how we move, with new…
ALZHEIMERS: THE LATEST RESEARCH YOU NEED TO KNOW
If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you’ll know that the starting point for my own Age-Well Project was my mother’s diagnosis with dementia 18 years ago. At that point, there was no effective medication or treatment, I simply had to watch her decline for the next 12 years, while trying to provide…
HOW TO LIVE TO (NEARLY) 99 IN FULL HEALTH…
We’ve written before about the remarkable power of art to fuel our brains. Not only does it nourish our imagination, but looking at art has been found to activate critical parts of our brain, helping fend off cognitive decline and dementia. Actually making art brings additional benefits, reducing stress (and the inflammation kindled by stress)…
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…
WHY YOU’RE NOT GOING TO BED, AND WHY YOU SHOULD
What was your bedtime routine last night? A well-planned wind-down and lights out on schedule? Or a drawn-out process of reading just one more chapter/email/text message followed by putting a wash on, talking to the dog and prepping breakfast? All of which I did last night after the time I’d planned to go to bed….
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