In this blog for health professionals, Dr Rebecca Gould, Cochrane UK Fellow and Sport and Exercise Medicine Registrar, summarises the recent changes in global and UK physical activity guidelines for adults and looks at some of the Cochrane evidence available on physical activity.
Tag: physical activity
Health professionals get active on Twitter!
Joining in the WeActiveChallenge is a great way for health professionals to get going on Twitter, as Sarah Chapman explains in this Evidently Cochrane blog
Preventing type 2 diabetes: exercise, eating and evidence
This blog looks at the WHO Global report on diabetes and some evidence on preventing type 2 diabetes
A wake-up call on children’s well-being: do more, do it now
It’s official – the Chief Medical Officer is ‘profoundly ashamed’. In her report on child health, Professor Dame Sally Davies highlights appalling inequalities in the UK, with three times as many child deaths in the poorest areas compared with wealthier regions, and shows us to be a nation lagging behind our European neighbours too. Much […]
Getting people to exercise: what do we know about what works?
What's the evidence on interventions to get people exercising?
What’s the evidence on tackling fatigue in rheumatoid arthritis?
Key message: There is some evidence that physical activity and talking treatments can help people with rheumatoid arthritis manage fatigue. We don’t have enough evidence to say which elements of these types of interventions are most effective, nor whether other non-drug approaches are also helpful. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease that causes inflammation […]