Improve your walking gait with Kris Tynan

Improve your walking gait with Kris Tynan

The Clam is favorite exercise of physios and Pilates instructors for a very good reason. Buttock and hip muscles can become a little lazy and the way you walk and run can reveal all! A classic ‘hip hitch’ gait develops to compensate for the hip muscles, particularly...
Your Brain Needs Exercise? But How Much?

Your Brain Needs Exercise? But How Much?

‘Your brain needs exercise – two kinds.” Memory Foundation talks with Dr Jian Guan about her research into exercise and how – and why – it helps to slow brain ageing. Brain ageing has four main causes and here Dr Jian Guan talks about one...
6 Surprising Benefits of Walking

6 Surprising Benefits of Walking

You already know that any physical activity, including walking, is great for your overall health. (That’s a gentle walk, 20 minutes a day, we are usually talking about.) But did you know that walking is the new ‘wonder drug’!! (Dr. Thomas Frieden,...
Sugar-free – and Happy!

Sugar-free – and Happy!

My journey started last century, when as a young lad in my 20’s and flatting, I made my first Muesli. The interest in good food gained momentum in the 1970s when my wife and I started experimenting with diet to see what effect it had on running marathons.   The quest...
Is Superfood A Myth? With Dr Jian Guan

Is Superfood A Myth? With Dr Jian Guan

  ‘There are no BAD foods and no superfoods.” Dr Jian Guan’s research tells her that the idea of superfood is a myth. And what about dairy cream? Isn’t that bad for you? Memory Foundation talks with Dr Jian Guan about her research into...
9 Habits for a Long Life

9 Habits for a Long Life

Somewhere in the remote Nicoyan peninsula of Costa Rica, a 101-year-old great-great-grandmother has already cleared brush, chopped wood and made tortillas from scratch – all before you have finished reading your morning newspaper. And here’s the best part:...