I was recently invited to a think-tank of forward-thinking exercise professionals (before you think it, I was surprised to get an invite too!) and one of the topics on discussion was ‘upstream medicine’.
The term upstream medicine refers to the use of diet, exercise and a general healthy existence as a means to avoid preventable lifestyle diseases such as Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes, Coronary heart disease, Hypertension etc – rather than deal with problems in future, take steps to prevent them becoming a problem in the first place. Obesity and its co-morbidities are the biggest problem the NHS faces today, and the trend is increasing at an alarming rate – our year on year increase in people suffering from obesity is outstripping that of America – in other words, we are out-eating the Americans. (more…)