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28/07/2020 | 4 minutes

One Million Step Challenge

Have you found yourself with more time during lockdown? I know I have. And one of the ways I’m taking advantage of this extra time is to do more exercise. So it’s brilliant timing that Diabetes UK has launched the sponsored One Million Step Challenge.

Charlie Churchill
Ambassador for DUK One Million Step Challenge

27/05/2020 | 7 minutes

Get your daily dose

It is becoming increasingly well known that increasing physical activity has huge health benefits. This is certainly the case in the prevention and management of diabetes – we know that up to 58% of cases of type 2 diabetes can be reversed by making the appropriate lifestyle changes. So why isn’t everyone doing it?

Carron and Lewis Manning
Physiotherapists and Co-Founders of EXi

27/10/2020 | 2 minutes

11 Ways To Age Well

Smiling, laughing while the heart is getting a workout - there's no medicine that can do that.

Ian Reddington
Health Behaviour Change Implementation Lead for the North West London Diabetes Transformation programme

26/11/2020 | 6 - 8 minutes

NHS Couch to 5K and type 1 diabetes – an experiment of N=1

An experiment into the impact of the NHS Couch to 5K app on living with type 1 diabetes. The first in a two-part series of blogs.

Alex Silverstein
Diabetes Education Lead

23/02/2021 | 6 minutes

NHS Couch to 5K and type 1 diabetes – an experiment of N=1, part 2

After nine weeks of running three times a week, nine weeks of getting up early to run around my local park and nine weeks of sharing my running stats with uninterested friends & family, I had managed to complete Couch to 5K.

Alex Silverstein
Diabetes Education Lead