So, running really is good for you.
A 21 year longitudinal study concludes that running at middle and older ages is associated with reduced disabi
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Reduced Disability and Mortality Among Aging RunnersAugust 13, 2008
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Exercise and Weight Loss – Raising the BarAugust 13, 2008
Sustained weight loss appears to require more time spent exercising than previous consensus statements had suggested. In a 24 month study of 200 o |
Health Behaviours and Mortality: The EPIC-Norfolk Prospective Population StudyJune 15, 2008
Smoking and drinking are bad for you and being active and eating healthilly are good for you. |
Moderate Alcohol Intake and Diabetes ControlJune 15, 2008
Good news! Patients who had previously abstained from alcohol appear to improve their glycaemic control with one glass of wine per day. |
You need a ChumbyJuly 10, 2007
You may not know it yet, but you need a Chumby – or you will when they are released into the wild real soon now. |
International Kuru Awareness WeekJuly 3, 2007
Although useful things (like dermatomes) can be impossible to remember, obscure things sometimes seem to stick fast in our memories. Like Kuru, which, as we all know, is caused by a slow acting virus transmitted by eating the brains of sufferers. Not terribly common here in NSW. |
St Jude strikes back – A perfect messJune 2, 2007
Just when all seemed lost, and our efforts to achieve ’stress-free productivity’ and a ‘time-efficient life’ seemed doomed, new hope dawns. |
Wasting Time Online – LineriderJune 1, 2007
Line Rider is the new time waster of choice in our house. A simple concept – draw a line on the screen from top left to bottom right. Press Play and a tiny tobogganer rides down the line you have drawn. Make the line steeper to give him more speed – not too steep or [...] |
Social Networking – have you got the IT factor.October 29, 2006
Fair, fat and forty-ish may be an accurate description of myself (ed note. We think Gadget Man is too hard on himself), but I don’t recommend it as a description for a ‘My Space’ page. So far, despite the fact the site has 106 million members, no one has offered to be my friend. Now, [...] |
A day in the life of a GP, circa 2005April 20, 2002
0830: Hospital ward round, visiting and reviewing the care of my patients. There is now appropriate recompense for GPs’ hospital visits under the ‘Continuity of Care’ program that was established under the new Medicare agreement – and the improved patient outcomes and avoidance of duplication has saved millions. Hospital care now reflects the same partnerships [...] |
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