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Five minutes more exercise each day and half an hour less sitting time each day
10 Dec 2025
Ultra-processed foods are damaging public health, fuelling chronic diseases globally and deepening health inequalities, according
15 Aug 2025
New research published by The Lancet Public Health has found 7,000 steps a day can
04 Aug 2025
Indoor cycling is an effective and low-cost way of treating hip osteoarthritis which could save
26 Feb 2025
Improvements in life expectancy in Europe have slowed according to a study published in The
17 Jan 2025
Fifty eight researchers are challenging the way obesity is defined and diagnosed, calling for a
One of the biggest mistakes operators in the fitness industry still make is advertising almost
22 Oct 2024
Untreated vision loss and bad cholesterol have been cited in new research as high risk
03 Oct 2024
The Health and Fitness Association’s new 2024 HFA Global Report shows that despite ongoing macro-economic
26 Jun 2024
Thirty one per cent of adults worldwide – approximately 1.8 billion people – did not
23 Jun 2022
A new report by Deloitte, outlining the social and economic value of the global health
25 Feb 2021
What are the effects on public health of gyms and leisure centres being shut during
09 Dec 2020
The fitness sector is mounting a challenge to overturn the government's decision to ban group
As healthcare continues to shift towards prevention, there’s a growing focus on helping people stay
20 Oct 2020
Persistent and rising levels of lifestyle disease across the world have exacerbated the effects of
15 Oct 2020
The pandemic has disrupted or halted critical mental health services in 93 per cent of
27 Mar 2020
Humphrey Cobbold, CEO of Pure Gym, appeared on BBC Question Time last night (26 March
24 Jan 2020
Chelsea FC has become the first English Premier League club to offer fans a food
22 Nov 2019
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that the majority of adolescents worldwide are not
21 Nov 2019
London's Science Museum says it has now completed its "Masterplan" transformation project, started in 2010,
Active Blackpool is deploying Cornerstone Connect, a new digital interface allowing disparate information from multiple
19 Sep 2019
New science has revealed a potential solution to age-related diseases which works on a systemic
16 Aug 2019
Teenagers' 'incessant' use of social media is radically reducing the time they spend sleeping and
22 Nov 2018
Children who exercise for at least one hour a day, get nine to 11 hours
14 Oct 2017
A 'shocking' rise in childhood obesity figures means Britain must act now or risk the
25 Sep 2017
One in four people worldwide do not meet daily exercise guidelines but need only undertake
08 Aug 2016
The British public has been under-reporting its daily calorie consumption, potentially misleading policymakers to focus
01 Aug 2016
Sedentary lifestyles are costing the global economy $67.5bn (£51bn, €60bn) a year in healthcare and
28 Jul 2016
Office workers who spend their days sitting down are urged to exercise for at least
13 Apr 2015
Contrary to current health advice, being overweight cuts the risk of dementia – according to
13 Mar 2015
Obesity is a disease which cannot be reliably prevented or cured with current frontline methods,
12 Feb 2015
Encouraging people to improve their diet and exercise more may not be enough to overcome
12 Dec 2014
Being severely obese can cut a person’s life short by up to eight years and
11 Dec 2014
Being severely obese can cut a person’s life short by up to eight years and
03 Dec 2014
The UK is the fourth worst country in the world for rates of cancer caused
14 Aug 2014
Around 12,000 cases of cancer each year are caused by people being overweight or obese,
29 Jan 2014
A recent study has suggested that football participation in professional environments could be a good
30 Jul 2013
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have developed a mathematical model that predicts
05 Mar 2013
Premature mortality in the UK is “persistently and significantly” below the mean of other European
26 Jul 2012
Researchers working with a hunter-gatherer tribe in Tanzania have claimed that the global obesity epidemic
18 Jul 2012
A new study published in medical journal The Lancet has claimed that sedentary lifestyles and
26 Aug 2011
A group of influential doctors and medical experts has called for governments globally to take
16 Aug 2011
One of the largest ever mass studies on the benefits of exercise has concluded that
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David Lloyd is stepping up its commitment to women’s health as it continues to explore what fit-for-purpose looks like for the female population
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SnowDome Fitness has added 50 per cent more space with cutting-edge Technogym solutions
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Starpool supports Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs, says Riccardo Turri
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Find out how your gym can tap into the corporate wellness boom
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Third Space partnered with IndigoFitness to deliver a
bespoke training space for its new club at The Whiteley
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Greg Bradley looks at the shift towards strength training in gyms and advises on how operators can create the ultimate training environment
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EGYM has opened a new HQ in Paternoster Square,
London and revealed a range of new launches
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The industry is embracing consumer-facing tech. Now it’s time to
streamline back-of-house systems with Orbit4, says Daniel Jones
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Pulse Fitness has created a
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“Working in public health over the last few years has lit up parts of my brain again”
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If the health service is to
survive, we must recognise
that it is a disease service
– and that wellbeing rests with
us, says the activity advocate
and healthy ageing champion.
He talks to Kate Cracknell
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The Breath Coach“I experienced a blissful feeling of joy I hadn’t felt since I was a kid”
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Raphael Cuomo explores the
powerful link between addiction,
health and behaviour change
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Small improvements to sleep, diet and physical activity have major benefits for the heart, according to new research from the University of Sydney
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Strength training is evolving,
driven by changing consumer
preferences. Julie Cramer talks
to innovators about how their
products are meeting this demand
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For every member with a tripod and a big following, there are others irritated at the way equipment is being hogged or wary they’ll be in the background on someone’s Insta feed. Do influencers offer valuable, free marketing or are they just a nuisance? Kath Hudson finds out how operators are responding
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As the entrepreneur who started Wexer, Fresh Fitness, Fitness DK and Repeat, as well as being a former elite athlete, Rasmus Ingerslev’s life looked perfect from the outside, but onthe inside it was a different story. He talks to Kath Hudson about healing old wounds
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Collaborations with the medical profession and greater aspirations around wellbeing are creating a need for more experts in our sector. It’s time to reboot our thinking around the workforce
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With corporately-owned clubs,
franchise networks, investments
and proprietary tech, Viva Leisure’s
ecosystem is redefining how
gyms scale and generate revenue.
Its CEO speaks to Kate Cracknell
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disparate information from multiple systems to be aggregated into one dataset, to support
its focus on reducing health inequalities and improving healthy life expectancy.
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