Evidence shows that being physically active delays the onset of chronic diseases, including type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer, as well as cognitive conditions such as dementia
Do you feel out of shape, sluggish or tired all the time – and want to feel better, but don’t know where to start?
With winter looming, it’s often tempting to banish thoughts of getting fit and healthy in favour of curling up on the sofa with a big bowl of comfort food.
Yet a lack of exercise and poor diet could be sending you to an early grave.
Here’s the good news. You can do something about it, and it needn’t be as hard as you think.
Using my two decades of experience in the field, I have devised a plan to help you lose a stone, sleep better, balance blood sugar, boost your heart health – and even fight dementia.
And it is all achievable with a simple diet and fitness plan that focuses on a set of exercises you can do at home in less than 30 minutes a week.
Evidence shows that being physically active delays the onset of chronic diseases, including type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer, as well as cognitive conditions such as dementia. You may have seen some of this research in action in the hit BBC series How To Stay Young, which was aired earlier this year. I headed up a team of experts who put a group of volunteers through a raft of tests to determine their ‘body age’ from their birth age.
The results were startling. Some were decades ‘older’ than they should have been. Some were suffering from anxiety, memory loss and sleep problems. Others had hidden problems such as early-stage diabetes, high cholesterol and heart disease.
