FIT4 issue 3 – Health, fitness & wellbeing newsletter
Welcome to issue 3 of FIT4, your quarterly Lloyd’s Community fitness, health and wellbeing newsletter brought to you by the Lloyd’s Wellbeing Centre.
Supporting health, fitness and wellbeing in the Lloyd's community
Welcome to issue 3 of FIT4, your quarterly Lloyd’s Community fitness, health and wellbeing newsletter brought to you by the Lloyd’s Wellbeing Centre.
FIT4 issue 2 Welcome to issue 2 of FIT4, your quarterly Lloyd’s Community fitness, health and wellbeing newsletter brought to you by the Lloyd’s Wellbeing Centre. Each issue will bring you interesting health and wellbeing articles, guidance, opinion and latest offers plus success stories from people around our great Lloyd’s community. Something for everyone then,…
Breast Cancer doesn’t discriminate Breast Cancer can affect any one of us, irrelevant of age, status, race or gender. Breast cancer occurs mainly in women, however, it is a health risk for guys too. Many people do not realise that men have breast tissue and that they too can develop breast cancer. Just like women,…
FIT4 issue 1 Welcome to issue 1 of FIT4, your quarterly Lloyd’s Community fitness, health and wellbeing newsletter brought to you by the Lloyd’s Wellbeing Centre. Each issue will bring you interesting health and wellbeing articles, guidance, opinion and latest offers plus success stories from people around our great Lloyd’s community. Something for everyone then,…
Surprising Health Benefits of Walking Walking is a great but under-appreciated form of exercise. It is not only is it good for your general health, its easy on the joints, it’s free and easy to incorporate into a busy schedule! Weight loss Taking one step uses over 200 muscles, walking 2 miles per day, 3…
Know Your Numbers – Diabetes It is expected that by 2030 approximately 4.6 million people in England with have diabetes (both diagnosed and undiagnosed). Monitoring your weight and knowing how much you should weight is important, but the only way of knowing if you have diabetes is by having a blood glucose test. Having high…
5 Tips for Lowering Blood Pressure Having an unhealthy lifestyle can raise your blood pressure over time. Suffering with high blood pressure, increases your risk of having a stroke or heart attack in the future. If your blood pressure is too high your doctor will prescribe medication and review this regularly. However you can make…
Around 30% of the UK population have high blood pressure, many may not know they have it as often it presents with no symptoms. When your blood pressure is too high, your heart works harder to pump blood around your body. High blood pressure also places a strain on the walls of your arteries, making…
There are two main types of fat in our diet, saturated and unsaturated. Cholesterol builds up in the walls of the blood vessels if you eat too much saturated fat, this can stop or slow the flow of blood to your heart, brain and rest of your body. To lower cholesterol levels it is important…
Research has shown that 6 out of every 10 adults in the UK have a raised cholesterol. The only way to know if you have a raised cholesterol is to have a non-fasting blood or finger-prick test. In order to understand the risk that cholesterol poses to your health it is important to know your…