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Achieving a healthy lifestyle – It’s all in the mind?

Most of us know what we need to do to pursue a healthy lifestyle. However, knowing isn't enough - we need to act on what we know. How can we achieve this, when there are often so many temptations and distractions?  

Walking for Health 

Ideas and support, to help you gain the health benefits of walking, even if you're short of time or have a medical condition.

The End of Illness 

Do we need to move beyond a germ based approach to medicine, based on fighting an external invasion of the human body? That's one of the questions posed by American oncologist Dr David Agus in his book 'The end of Illness.'

How harmful is sugar?

Sugar is such a health risk that it should be taxed, like alcohol or tobacco. That’s according to a commentary by Dr Robert H Lustig and his colleagues in the prestigious science Journal Nature  

Telehealth and Telecare

What differences might telehealth and telecare mean for us in the years ahead? 

 The Food Hospital

‘By choosing our foods carefully, we can have a lot more control than we have ever had over how well we age, how we resist illness, and the number of years we are able to live an active life.’ This is a central premise to this tie- in book to Channel 4’s The Food Hospital 

Population aged 100 years and over, UK, 1965-2010

This chart shows the population aged 100 years and over, in the UK, for the years 1965-2010. 

Source: Office for National Statistics

Who are we?  AgeWatch launched in 2011. We aim to help people live long and healthy lives, drawing on relevant medical and scientific evidence. 

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