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"Current UK guidelines recommend adults do strength and balance exercises twice a week, but few of us meet them. “We’ve coined it ‘the forgotten guideline’,” says Foster, adding that it is just as (if not more) important for older adults. Carrying heavy shopping bags an extra few hundred metres to a car parked further away, climbing stairs or even balancing on one leg are all options; the latest draft guidance from the CMO also suggests digging in the garden or lifting and carrying a child."
so there you go, I hate to point out the alignment of the grapevine to the more, ahem, senior, demographic, but there it is - get out there gardening (on one leg, whilst carrying a child for max benefit...
(CMO = Chief Medical Officer)
"Current UK guidelines recommend adults do strength and balance exercises twice a week, but few of us meet them. “We’ve coined it ‘the forgotten guideline’,” says Foster, adding that it is just as (if not more) important for older adults. Carrying heavy shopping bags an extra few hundred metres to a car parked further away, climbing stairs or even balancing on one leg are all options; the latest draft guidance from the CMO also suggests digging in the garden or lifting and carrying a child."
so there you go, I hate to point out the alignment of the grapevine to the more, ahem, senior, demographic, but there it is - get out there gardening (on one leg, whilst carrying a child for max benefit...
(CMO = Chief Medical Officer)
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