Exercise
July 2017: End2End, Lands End to John o'Groats cycle trip
The three Score Year and Ten tour! A big thank you to everyone who have so generously sponsored Mark and Clive to cycle this journey in aid of The Sunflower Trust. If you are inspired and would like to support us in this, there may be still time to add your contribution at; https://mydonate.bt.com/events/sunflowerbikeride/436142…
Read MoreEnd to End:May 2017.
“Cycling from Land’s End to John o’ Groats or End to End as it is popularly known, is a truly British Adventure. It is a challenging long-distance bicycle tour of almost a thousand miles, from the very tip of south-west England to the far north of Scotland, usually undertaken with a two-week time frame, providing…
Read MoreMarch 2017: Call for mad cyclists. Plus a new Acupuncturist at Helix House.
End To End with Mark, Lee and Clive Plus New Faces at Helix House This month I want to highlight two exciting events. One a call to arms… or rather legs, for anyone mad enough to join us on a cycle trip the length of the land. And the second is to welcome Traditional Chinese…
Read MoreOne life, One You: What you can do today to really help the NHS! January 2017
“I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying”. Woody Allen In 1919, right after the horrors of World War 1, William Butler Yeats wrote, in his powerful poem, The Second Coming: “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold… …The best lack all conviction, while the worst…
Read MoreWhy Women should do weights: August 2016
A summer of change A lot of changes are afoot both at Helix House and in public health advice recently. Most notably this July with new governmental advice for us to take extra vitamin D as a supplement. Vitamin D supplementation For most people, the bulk of their vitamin D is made from the action…
Read MoreTaking life in your stride
Exhortations to move are common. These blogs are no exception. Perhaps far too many of my blogs have harped on about the health benefits of movement. However, Professor Ulf Ekelund, a senior scientist in the Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge, has just published major new research in The American Journal…
Read MoreMarch Blog 2012
The Way we see the world This month I have been inspired by David Hockney’s brilliant, colour soaked, life affirming exhibition at the Royal Academy. Hockney is a great master of seeing, and much of his present enormous recent output at the Royal Academy is a lesson in the art of seeing. This month how…
Read MoreJanuary Blog 2012
Happy New Year from all of us at Helix House! If you have not done so already please help us spread the word and go to Helix House on Facebook ‘like’ us, if you do, that is! We would love to hear your stories if you have found your way back to better health and…
Read MoreSeptember Blog 2011
An epidemic of chronic disease An epidemic of chronic disease threatens to compromise the health of our population and the effectiveness and economics of our healthcare system. Alarming projections suggest that future generations may have shorter, less healthy lives if current trends continue unchecked.1Because of its focus on acute care, the current medical model fails…
Read MoreMarch Blog 2011
“Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative”. – Maurice Chevalier Getting Ready for a Greyer World A recent headline in the New York Times reports ‘As the population ages, firms see new markets’. Being a classic baby boomer myself I have mixed feelings about such approaches. On the one hand of course…
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