Health expert Dr Michael Mosley has shared the hourly two-minute routine that could slash your risk of heart disease, helping you live a healthier, happier life – and it couldn’t be any simpler to give it a go for yourself
As a health and nutrition expert, Dr Michael Mosley is dedicated to helping people live well for longer, with his Fast 800 and 5:2 diets encouraging people to think more carefully about the food they consume. Now Dr Mosley has come forward to reveal how deceptively simple lifestyle changes could make a huge difference, offering easy-to-follow advice in his new book, Just One Thing: How Simple Changes Can Transform Your Life.
In this book, Dr Mosley shares 16 things you could be doing each day to improve your overall health and well-being, all of which can be incorporated into even the busiest of schedules. One of these top tips includes an hourly two-minute routine that could slash your risk of heart disease, and you won’t necessarily need to top athlete to give it a go for yourself.
For those of us with office jobs, it can feel difficult at times to make sure we’re getting enough movement throughout the day, as much of our work will be completed at our desks, with only our typing fingers getting any exercise. Sedentary lifestyles can however pose serious problems when it comes to our health, and can even lead to a number of dangerous conditions.
According to the NHS website: “Studies have linked being inactive with being overweight and obese, type 2 diabetes, some types of cancer, and early death. Sitting for long periods is thought to slow the metabolism, which affects the body’s ability to regulate blood sugar, blood pressure and break down body fat.”