The simple way to transform your health, slash risk of death and stay slim...
without Ozempic: PROFESSOR ROB GALLOWAY By Professor Rob Galloway Published: 01:28 GMT, 5 November 2024 | Updated: 01:38 GMT, 5 November 2024 e-mail View comments What’s the one simple thing that could transform your health? No, it’s not the Ozempic jab, or an obscure berry being touted as the latest ‘superfood’, or a new app for your phone. It’s pretty basic: you need to stand up and move about more. The fact is, whether it’s sitting at a desk all day or glueing ourselves to the sofa watching TV for hours, our sedentary lifestyle is creating a pandemic of ill health.
Our bodies are designed to be active. Food – specifically the glucose it’s broken down into – is the fuel that drives it. But if we sit all day, expending very little energy, the levels of glucose in our blood remain higher than they should.
This, in turn, causes the chronic diseases I now see so much of in A&E – type 2 diabetes , heart attacks and cancer , affecting old and young alike. Dr Rob Galloway says our sedentary lifestyle is creating a pandemic of ill health Study after study has confirmed the risks of prolonged sitting. In one of the most recent, researchers in Taiwan examined data from nearly half a million people over a 20-year period and found that those who worked sitting down were 34 per cent more likely to die of a heart attack and 16 per cent more likely to die of all causes (including cancer) than.