Interesting Fact – Transport
According to a new study published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology journal if you want to lose weight you should take public transport. (Seemingly you can benefit from the ‘incidental’ physical activity involved”. They’ll be telling us we should walk to work next! How much do these people get paid?)
Interesting Fact – Coffee
According to a study carried out by Action on Sugar hot drinks can contain at least as much sugar as a can of Pepsi or Coca-Cola. (In some of the worst cases the drinks tested contained 20 or more teaspoons of sugar. For example, a large Chai Latte can contain around 80g of sugar: according […]
Interesting Place – Spain
According to the World Health Organisation, Spain is the noisiest country in Europe, and Madrid is one of the noisiest capitals. (In fact Spain is the second noisiest country in the world, behind Japan. Most of the noise comes from traffic, such as cars, heavy lorries and noisy motorbikes and mopeds. This is closely followed […]
Thoughts on weight loss and exercise
I have to walk early in the morning, before my brain figures out what I’m doing. Walking can add minutes to your life. This enables you at 85 years old to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing home at £7000 a month. My granddad started walking five miles a day when he was […]