Guest blog by @JosephLightfoot The State Of Our Health Britain is facing a health crisis and the statistics paint a bleak picture for the future. Why Is This Happening? Humans are evolved to be highly active and to consume natural, unrefined food. However, our lifestyles have changed radically. As a population, we are now largely […]
Category: Behavior changes
Practical Guidance for Exercise and Pregnancy: 10 Take home messages from the BMJ Podcast
Exercise during pregnancy provides many benefits to the mother and baby. Fortunately, clinicians and mothers have moved well beyond the view that women should be confined, or cannot initiate activity and be active at any stage of pregnancy. Here are 10 ‘take home messages’ for both clinicians and mums from a recent BMJ podcast with […]
Is the global movement ‘tipping’? Exercise IS medicine
Three exciting updates from the frontlines of health promotion through physical activity. First, congratulations to Professor Steven Blair for winning the Bloomberg Manulife Prize for the Promotion of Active Health. This international competition celebrates a researcher whose work promises to broaden understanding of how physical activity, nutrition or psychosocial factors influence personal health and well-being. Professor […]
Rural sport and exercise medicine in the highlands of Scotland – working with Shinty!
Guest blog by Dr Jonathan Hanson FFSEM Like many doctors in sport for years I have relied upon the goodwill of colleagues and employers in the remote corner of Scotland I call home. Last year I felt the time had come to give something back to the local sport in my region, rather than consistently […]
23 and a half hours video passes 2 million views!
Mike Evans circulated this to his hockey team of kids early in December 2011. #1 educational video on YouTube. Remember that low fitness (<30 mins of physical activity daily) kills more Americans that smoking, diabetes, and obesity combined (smokadiabesity). Click on this link. Watch it, share it. Do it yourself. Encourage patients to watch it […]
Guest Blog by Professor Timothy Noakes – A comment on ‘Good Calories, Bad Calories’ and ‘Why We Get Fat and What to Do About It’
I have been reading Gary Taubes‘ books on nutrition and health – Good Calories, Bad Calories and Why We Get Fat and What to Do About It. It is clear to me now that carbohydrate intake is the factor driving the obesity/diabetes/ heart disease/ metabolic syndrome epidemic globally. Taubes explains how this was known up […]
New editoral from Prof. Finch- Updating the international research agenda for sport injury prevention
Professor Caroline Finch is a leading advocate for decreasing the divide between the science and practice of injury prevention through greater cross-fertilization in the fields of injury and sports medicine research. In the June 24, 2011 edition of BJSM’s sister journal Injury Prevention, Prof Finch offers a concise summary: Updating the international research agenda for […]
Has ‘sedentarism’ — excessive sitting — crossed over to join the conditions that the public is aware of? The new obesity?
The health problems of office workers who ‘sit too much’ is getting increasing attention not only in medical journals but now also in popular media. See: Owen N, Baumen, AE, and Brown, W. 2009. Too much sitting: a novel and important predictor of chronic disease risk? BJSM;43:81-83. Brown, WJ, Bauman, AE, and Owen N. Stand […]
Football as Global Health Promotion: FIFA’s 11 for Health Programme
“Prevention is better than a cure, no matter what disease we look at…football is an ideal platform to promote a healthy lifestyle and prevent disease.” – Professor Jiri Dvorak, FIFA’s Chief Medical Officer This month’s BJSM Editor’s Choice (free online) highlights an innovative approach to health and exercise promotion in Africa. Authors […]
‘Theft of wellness’ or preventive medicine?
As clinicians we are always challenged to ‘primum non nocere’ – first of all do no harm. Unfortunately, this is not so easy – as those who have died as a results of iatrogenesis know only too well. Ray Moynihan has been at the forefront of ‘critical self-reflection’ in our professions and he was in […]