The Get Fit Song

Action Amanda wants to get your children moving! Watch this new music video with your kids.  Its time to fight obesity levels which have alarmingly increased ten fold in children and teenagers over the last four decades according to new research in the Lancet […]

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Lifestyle programme can help beat diabetes

An inexpensive, 16-week NHS lifestyle programme aimed at patients with type 2 diabetes can help to treat the disease. A new study led by the University of Glasgow and published today in Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism, showed how effective the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Glasgow and Clyde Weight Management Service lifestyle programme was at […]

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Lifestyle programme can help beat diabetes

An inexpensive, 16-week NHS lifestyle programme aimed at patients with type 2 diabetes can help to treat the disease. A new study led by the University of Glasgow and published today in Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism, showed how effective the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Glasgow and Clyde Weight Management Service lifestyle programme was at […]

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Teenage girls ditching dairy

Britain’s teenage girls are ditching dairy, according to a survey among 2,000 UK adults, including over 1,000 parents, which showed that almost 1 in 5 teenage girls aged 13-19 are drinking less milk than two years ago, and 1 in 6 have cut it out of their diets altogether. Sophie Medlin, leading dietitian and lecturer […]

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Teenage girls ditching dairy

Britain’s teenage girls are ditching dairy, according to a survey among 2,000 UK adults, including over 1,000 parents, which showed that almost 1 in 5 teenage girls aged 13-19 are drinking less milk than two years ago, and 1 in 6 have cut it out of their diets altogether. Sophie Medlin, leading dietitian and lecturer […]

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Inactivity can cause rapid decline in elderly

Older people who are inactive or sedentary for any period of time can rapidly lose muscle mass and mobility. According to a recent study published in The Journal of Physiology, researchers have been able to document for the first time how the same period of inactivity has a greater and more severe impact on the muscle […]

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Inactivity can cause rapid decline in elderly

Older people who are inactive or sedentary for any period of time can rapidly lose muscle mass and mobility. According to a recent study published in The Journal of Physiology, researchers have been able to document for the first time how the same period of inactivity has a greater and more severe impact on the muscle […]

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