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A recent study suggests that for every additional 500 steps you take each day, you may be lowering the risk of heart issues by 14 per cent. To put it another way, this recent study found that adults who took fewer than 2,000 steps a day were 77 per cent more likely to experience a...

Did you take time off work last year?  Many of us did. In fact, according to recently released official figures, a record 185.6 million working days were lost, due to sickness or injury. That is even more than during the first year of lockdown. In fact, 2022 was the worst year for sick days since...

Eating more protein can help prevent your midlife spread, partly by suppressing your appetite.  A recent study has found that people eat 210 calories more per day than when they are on a low-protein diet. Yet most of us aren’t eating enough protein. A study from the University of Sheffield found less than half of...

Don’t miss the boat. Remember that we are all in the same boat. Plan ahead. It wasn’t raining when Noah built the Ark. Stay fit. When you’re very old Someone may ask you to do something really big. Don’t listen to critics.Just get on with the job needing to be done. Build your future on...

Questions you could ask might include: –  how did you first meet?  –  was it love at first sight? –  how long have you been engaged? –  name something you really love about your fiancé –  what will the wedding be like?  formal, informal, big, small? –  what made you choose our church? –  where...

Nowadays people are generally not in hospital for long. Even a major operation only earns you a few days’ stay in one of their beds. With almost embarrassing enthusiasm they get you out of bed, walk you up and down the ward and duly announce that you’re ‘well enough to go home’. Visiting the recovering...

(or: what the dog training manuals will never tell you) Begin now – and build up your stamina! Pour cold apple juice on the carpet in several places and walk around barefoot in the dark. Wear a sock to work that has had the toes shredded by a blender. Immediately upon waking, rush outside in...

Falling among thieves It’s getting harder to see your GP How your friends may be keeping you alive Some popular health myths debunked Beware your dog’s tracker app One in five people find common noises “intolerable” The pothole crisis deepens **  Editor:  David Pickup, a solicitor, considers the after-effects of theft Falling among thieves And...

And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves… Luke 10:30 Some of the saddest victims of crime include cases where people have been betrayed or taken advantage of by one of their own family members. One victim lost thousands of pounds to someone with whom they...

When did you last see your GP, and for how long did that appointment last?  According to a recent international study of 10 high-income countries, British patients are given the shortest GP appointments and are also the least likely to see a doctor in person. The Health Foundation found that Britain has the shortest appointment...

Take care of your friendships, and they will take care of you. A recent study has found that if, in later life, you enjoy your friends on a regular and frequent basis, then the joy that they bring you may even halve your risk of death within five years. The book of Proverbs (27:9) compares...

The best ways of staying fit and healthy may be different from what you thought. Here are some fitness dictats which were originally based more on marketing than on science. Walk 10,000 steps a day: This goal has been a popular mantra for years, and it has even been adopted by the World Health Organisation....