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Improving aerobic fitness

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Aerobic fitness is integral to successful sports performance and to maintaining good health. But what sort of exercise should you be doing to develop your aerobic fitness? This free course, Improving aerobic fitness, will help you to answer this question by introducing you to principles of aerobic exercise prescription.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology

Veganuary: can it make a positive difference?

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This article explores how Veganuary’s growth has sparked a global shift toward veganism, changing consumption habits and raising awareness about animal rights.

Category: Health

Vegans: why they inspire fear and loathing among meat eaters

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Matthew Cole and Kate Stewart explore why veganism stimulates such aggressive responses. 
Category: Health

How Healthy Are You?

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How healthy are you? Have a go at this interactive quiz on diet, physical activity and lifestyle choices and see if you need to make some personal changes.
Category: Health

The science of chocolate

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Senior lecturer in analytical science Claire Turner asks: Can chocolate ever be good for us?
Category: Health

Dying: what’s wellbeing got to do with it?

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The concept of wellbeing is intended to be holistic and cover the entire life course and life events. However, when it comes to dying, wellbeing is usually not the first (or in top ten even) of words that people think about. People may be more familiar with thinking about ‘quality of life’, which if often linked to patient outcomes. In this article, we’ll outline what taking a wellbeing approach to dying matters and what it could look like.
Category: Social Care & Social Work

50 years of sport and fitness

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As The Open University celebrates its 50th year, discover how sport and fitness has rapidly developed since 1969. In this series of articles, we look back at the advances made in technology and sports medicine, successes of British sportswomen, world records and changes in various sports and fitness activites.
Category: Sport & Fitness

Can I become fitter by doing short bursts of exercise?

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Some studies suggest that health goals might be within your grasp - or at least a short walk away. Richard Metcalfe adds some caveats.
Category: Sport & Fitness

Exercise and mental health

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Each year thousands of pounds are spent on medications to treat conditions such as anxiety and depression. These medications often have negative side effects. Exercise is an alternative treatment that is low cost and has few side effects. In this free course, Exercise and mental health, we will look at the links between exercise and improved mental health and psychological well-being. This will include consideration of the role of exercise in combating stress, anxiety and depression, and in enhancing mood.
Category: Sport & Fitness

Cyflwyniad i Bresgripsiynu Cymdeithasol Gwyrdd — Iechyd Meddwl ac Amgylchedd y Gweithle

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Sut y gall gweithleoedd ddechrau defnyddio syniadau yn ymwneud â phresgripsiynu cymdeithasol gwyrdd i wella llesiant.

 
Category: Mental Health

Introduction to Green Social Prescribing — Mental Health and the Workplace Environment

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How workplaces can begin to make use of ideas from green social prescribing to enhance wellbeing.

 
Category: Mental Health

The benefits of mindfulness and five common myths surrounding it

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Mindfulness has grown in popularity in recent years but how exactly can we apply it and what misconceptions surround the practice? This article explores...
Category: Mental Health

Stress and anxiety in the digital age: the dark side of technology

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What is it about new technology that is making many of us anxious and stressed? Dr Gini Harrison and Dr Mathijs Lucassen explore the top five stressors:
Category: Mental Health

Green care: contact with nature can improve mental health

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Can being outside gardening improve our wellbeing? Discover three factors that account for the positive effects of 'green care'.
Category: Mental Health

Managing and managing people

This free course, Managing and managing people, will introduce you to the world of management. We will be looking at a range of topics, including what managers do, what skills they require, and how you can develop as a manager.
Category: Leadership & Management
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