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How to eat well for menopause
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Menopause is a period of transition that can affect women in a range of different ways. The way in which we respond to the changes can have a lasting impact on the quality of our health....
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Depression, anxiety and ageing well
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Depression is one of the leading causes of disease related disability in women and they are nearly twice as likely as men to suffer from an episode of depression. The prevalence has been...
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How to sleep better
Sleep is crucial for our overall health and well-being, affecting both our physical and mental health. This is why a lack of it impairs a range of functions from task performance and post-physical activity recovery to...
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Letting go of wanting to lose weight
Welcome to today’s episode “Letting go of wanting to lose weight” with non-diet counsellor Mel Wakeman and guest Amy Wilkinson sharing her lived experience.
Mel is a highly experienced and neurodivergent registered...
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How good is your bone health?
As we age from mid-life we lose muscle mass and our bone strength gradually declines. Keeping our bone health for as long as possible is important to prevent us from becoming frail.
What does ‘bone health’...
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Heart health and menopause
Heart disease tends to be considered a man’s problem and high blood pressure, cholesterol, stress and too much drinking and smoking are common problems for men. The reality is that the risk of coronary heart disease...
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How to protect your brain health
The brain is a complex organ that controls our movement, our emotions and stores our precious memories. When we talk about brain health, there are a few definitions and the one I have chosen is from World Health...
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Social isolation and loneliness
The topic today is social isolation and loneliness and you may have heard this well known quote about the impact on our health.
“research by Prof Julianne Holt-Lundstat about the impact of social connection on health...
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Move more, age well
Brief summary of episode: The average healthspan, the number of years that people spend healthy in the UK is about 10 years shorter than the average lifespan. Increasing the number of years that we spend in good...
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How to deal with belly fat
Brief summary of episode: Belly fat, middle-aged spread, apple-shape, central adiposity.... Call it what you will, as we age it seems to creep up on us. Over 43% of menopausal women have obesity and in today’s show I...
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Gut health and ageing
Brief summary of episode: What does ‘’healthy ageing” really mean when we are all so different as individuals? The ageing process is influenced by so many factors, our physical environment, social environment,...
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Trailer
Women Positively Ageing was born from my conversations with my peers about how we could age better. In this trailer, I tell the story of realising that ageing isn't just about physical health issues and why I want to...
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