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  • Stroke - Prevention

    Read about preventing strokes. The best way to prevent a stroke is to eat a healthy diet, exercise regularly, and avoid smoking and excessive consumption of alcohol.

  • Paget's disease of the nipple - Reducing the risk

    Information about preventing breast cancer, including advice about diet, exercise, the importance of maintaining a healthy weight and breast screening.

  • Osteoporosis - Prevention

    Your genes are responsible for determining your height and the strength of your skeleton, but lifestyle factors such as diet and exercise influence how healthy your bones are.

  • Obesity - Treatment

    Information and advice about losing weight safely using diet and exercise. Other useful strategies include setting weight loss goals and asking for the support of family and friends.

  • Obesity - Diagnosis

    Read about how body mass index (BMI) is used to determine whether a person is overweight or obese. Lifestyle factors, such as diet and physical activity levels, are also important.

  • About our Fitness Studio videos

    Find out about our instructor-led exercise videos, including the types of videos we have and why exercise is important.

  • Fibromyalgia - Treatment

    Treatment for fibromyalgia aims to ease the symptoms and improve quality of life. The main treatments are exercise, talking therapies and medicines.

  • Coronary heart disease - Recovery

    Read about recovering from a heart attack or heart surgery, including information and advice about exercise, relationships and sex, and returning to work.

  • Coronary heart disease - Prevention

    Find out how to reduce your risk of getting coronary heart disease (CHD). A healthy diet, regular exercise, keeping to a healthy weight, not smoking and reducing your alcohol intake will all lower your risk.

  • Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG)

    Find out about leading a healthy lifestyle after having a coronary artery bypass graft (CABG), including eating healthily and taking regular exercise.