Tag: Health

Golf spectators aren’t limited to a seat, as with many other sports, and are instead free to walk around the courses. On average, Paul Lawrie Matchplay spectators walked an average of more than 11,589 steps, with more than 82% meeting daily physical activity recommendations and more than 60% expressing an interest in becoming more physically…

Susan Scott, author of How To Prevent Burnout (October 2017) and How To Have An Outstanding Career (May 2017) offers ten top tips for dealing with stress. Increase your personal stress awareness. Recognise the symptoms. These can be physical, emotional, behavioural or psychological. Consider what might be causing you to feel the way you do…

Chronic pain can be extremely debilitating, causing significant emotional distress, but could emotions play a far bigger role in how and why we experience pain? The FHT recently attended the SIRPA (Stress Illness Recovery Practitioners Association) Conference 2017, entitled Chronic Pain: the role of emotions, to find out more about this fascinating topic. The conference…

One in five attempts to quit smoking are now successful, according to recent research from University College London, funded by Cancer Research UK. The research revealed a 19.8% success rate for those who attempted to quit smoking in the first half of 2017, showing a significant improvement from an average of 15.7% over the past…

Frequent sauna bathing reduces the risk of elevated blood pressure, according to an extensive follow-up population-based study carried out at the University of Eastern Finland. The risk of developing elevated blood pressure was nearly 50% lower among men who went to a sauna four to seven times a week, compared to men who used a…

People who regularly use public transport generally walk faster and this brings with it health benefits that could be particularly beneficial for older people, according to a recent study published in BMJ Open. The study looked at the potential health benefits of public transport and scientists sought to investigate whether public transport use prevented declines…

A study led the University of Warwick suggests that people are reluctant to use public access defibrillators to treat cardiac arrests. The analysis of existing international studies, which has been published in the European Heart Journal, suggests that there are a number of factors that prevent members of the public from using them and potentially…

Life satisfaction in the UK is improving year-on-year, according to the latest data from the Office for National Statistics. In addition, people in the UK are also slightly happier on average than they were last year, with those in Northern Ireland reporting the highest average well-being ratings, across the countries. These findings form part of…