Nanette Mutrie

Because the density of car infrastructure is too high!

Public lecture at PAHRC

"From Blyth to Bathgate: How can we better impact physical activity inequalities"

Prof Emily Oliver

Wednesday 19th Feb

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stewart-al...

@mariehmurphy.bsky.social @coralhanson.bsky.social

Prehab4Cancer outcomes improving quality of life – and recovery – for patients - GM Active Patients engaging with Prehab4Cancer, the world-leading exercise, nutrition and wellbeing programme for cancer patients in Greater Manchester and parts of Cheshire...

Great mix of data and powerful human stories in this latest piece on Prehab for Cancer by #GMActive.

Prehab patients spent on average:
- 36 hours less in hospital
- 10 hours less in critical care

More: www.gmactive.co.uk/news/prehab4...

#WorldCancerDay | @gmmoving.co.uk

It is #trysomethingnew week with sportscotland. Here pickleball Scotland Ambassadors introduce the game in Letham4all community hub in Perth. Smiles more important than scores😊

Australia spends $714 per person on roads every year – but just 90 cents goes to walking, wheeling and cycling Walking and cycling get 90c per person each year from the Australian government. What if that figure rose to $5, $10 or $15?

Australia spends $714 per person on roads every year – but just 90 cents goes to walking, wheeling and cycling
theconversation.com/australia-sp...

What can I do to protect myself? Get vaccinated Safe and effective vaccines are available to protect against seasonal influenza and COVID-19. Use respiratory etiquette Cough and sneeze into my arm/ elbow or into a tissue, NOT my hand. Clean my hands regularly Wear a mask When in crowded, enclosed, or poorly ventilated areas if at risk for severe COVID-19 or influenza

What can I do to protect myself against respiratory diseases such as #influenza and #COVID19?

Gianni Infantino given wake-up call as stats show FIFA driving climate crisis A major new scientific report shows how damaging football's sponsorship deals with fossil fuel companies and airlines are - and tells FIFA what needs to be done

“The report makes two main practical demands to the football industry, beyond the obvious of reducing emissions, raising awareness and collecting more data: to ban polluting sponsors and to redesign the football calendar to make it more regional.”

Physical activity—the past, present and potential future: a state-of-the-art review Abstract. This is a state-of-the-art review of historical developments, current approaches and recommended future directions in physical activity (PA) rese

In our NEW PAPER, as early career researchers, our call to action is...

"advance the understanding of the role of POLITICS IN PHYSICAL ACTIVITY..."

Read free: doi.org/10.1093/heap...

P. McCue, @brittanyswelam.bsky.social @joeyjmurphy.bsky.social & S.Edney
for @healthpromint.bsky.social

This is a clever and attractive bike rack! 🚲

One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.”

“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath
grist.org/biking/one-m...

totally worth a read!
"Short list of common sins in published clinical trials includes misinterpreted p-values, automated model selection, use of change scores, “table 1 tests” and subsequent covariate adjustment based on them, over-interpreting subgroup differences, and needless categorization."

18-Year Study Of 82,297 Adults Finds Cycle Commuting Halves Chance Of Early Death Billionaires famously want to live longer. They should jump on bicycles, not spacecraft.

“A 5-year study of 263K U.K. commuters, published in the British Medical Journal in 2017, found regular cycling cut the risk of death from any cause by 41%, and the incidence of cancer and heart disease by 45% and 46% respectively. Other large-scale studies have found similar.” Via @CarltonReid.com

Even a small dose of physical activity can be good medicine - Nature Medicine Studies from wearables show that even small doses of physical activity provide health benefits; guidelines should be updated to reflect this.

Even a small dose of physical activity can be good medicine; www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Another reminder:

Respiratory infections spread mainly through the air. That’s why they affect the lungs.

Masks, worn correctly and consistently, reduce the spread of respiratory infections.

Respirators work better than masks.

Washing hands isn’t wrong, but it won’t stop airborne transmission.

Biking to work reduces the odds of dying from cancer by 51%! You’d think transit planners would find the hell out of bike lanes given how much money that saves to public and the government. Even “fiscal conservatives” can’t debunk the obvious societal good and savings from that.

Fund bike lanes!

People on board with new solution to Toronto traffic that would limit cars on city streets Fixing Toronto's gridlock is now so high on the political agenda that the Province is ripping out brand-new bike lanes in a misguided attempt to get …

"Paris started with periodic, strategic closures of key streets, then day-long closures of the entire city center, always in the context of the conversation about air quality, livability & noise…It's a very smart way of doing it." — @brenttoderian.bsky.social in BlogTO www.blogto.com/city/2024/12...

New Yorker cover showing people inside a gym on stationary bikes going nowhere, and outside a rack of bike-share bikes mostly unused. Ironic.

What if we designed our cities, and the land-uses, densities & infrastructure that make them what they are, so that daily activity and exercise was just a normal, ordinary, almost “invisible” part of every day life?

It’s actually not that hard. We just have to change our priorities. #HealthyCities

E-Bikers Ride Much Farther and More Frequently Than Regular Bikers They are not 'cheating,' but are serious transportation.

The “E-Bike Effect:” Those who bought e-bikes increased their average daily bicycle use from 2.1km (1.3 miles) to 9.2km (5.7 miles), a 340% increase. The e-bike share of all their transportation increased dramatically too; from 17% to 49%.

E-bikes support fewer car trips.

V/@lloydalter.bsky.social

PhD Studentship: Innovative Ways of Supporting Physical Activity Promotion and the Systems That Drive It at Newcastle University Discover a PhD Studentship: Innovative Ways of Supporting Physical Activity Promotion and the Systems That Drive It on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other PhD opportunities.

👨‍🎓 PhD studentship - interested in #PhysicalActivity promotion?

We're offering a funded PhD (overseas surcharges apply), and we invite applications from a broad range of backgrounds to help us think differently.

Deadline: 31st Jan.

Full details and contacts below.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLC852/p...

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Celebrating today with the news that @PickleballScot1 has been recognised by @sportscotland as the National Governing Body in Scotland. It really is Christmas. @MareeToddMSP
@ActiveScotGov @kayjmunro. Bsky.social
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As the coaching and education officer for Pickleball Scotland I am delighted to award Robert Macklin his Club Coach award. Robert works with young people in Drumchapel Glasgow. Can I find a pickleball community here on Bluesky?

Get the message? A scoping review of physical activity messaging - International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity Background Understanding how to create and deliver effective physical activity (PA) messages for and to various population subgroups may play a role in increasing population PA levels. This scoping re...

Oh.. and if you want some evidence to support this you could start here 😉: ijbnpa.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

The more we share, the faster we accumulate knowledge, & the more we do this, the more our work can help the many challenges & threats the world faces. #OpenScience

‘Just do something you enjoy!’ Have official targets made exercise a chore – and happiness more elusive? We all know roughly how many minutes we should be spending getting sweaty every week, thanks to repeated messages from national governments and the World Health Organization. When it comes to mental h...

Yes! This! Guidelines are for us (researchers), not for the public. Physical activity messages should forget the threshold and promote short term/immediate benefits - and these usually relate to social and mental health! ✨ www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Wondering who the faces are behind The SPRINT Project?

Let us introduce ourselves and see our individual profiles through the starter pack ⬇️

Watch this space as more of the team join bluesky 🦋

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a PhD by publication with Scholarship as part of an MRFF funded research project: Improving the physical and mental health of people born with innate variations of sex characteristics. Contact annette.bromdal@unisq.edu.au. Applications by 14 February.

see:
www.unisq.edu.au/scholarships...

The five-minute city: inside Denmark’s revolutionary neighbourhood While ambitious urban planners try to make 15-minute cities a reality, the Nordhavn district of Copenhagen has gone one better. What’s life like when everything you need is just a stroll away?

Superb article about planning for people not cars

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

This is the way knowledge exchange should be conducted- thank you @susanmichie.bsky.social

The therapeutic potential of exercise in post-traumatic stress disorder and its underlying mechanisms: A living systematic review of human and non-human studies

Co-produced and 'living' systematic review (pre-print & not yet peer reviewed)

wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-720

#exercise #PTSD