Exercise for Health ⁽¹¹⁾

A new study from the UK Biobank shows that accumulating just a few minutes a day of moderate-to-vigorous activity that leaves you slightly breathless may lower the risk of eight major diseases, including heart disease, dementia, and diabetes. The research was conducted by an international…

Since the pandemic began, I have had much more time for exercise. Over the past two-plus years my weight has gradually dropped; I am now about ten kilograms (twenty jin) lighter than before the pandemic, back to my 60-kilogram (120-jin) days. I used to fear…

Crawling is a relatively uncommon form of exercise, and doctors do not recommend that patients use crawling to relieve the suffering of certain diseases. But I personally experienced two incidents that changed my view. My father has coronary heart disease. For a period he had…

In the season when warmth returns but cold still lingers, a sudden blizzard descended on Beijing, and the temperature plummeted to around freezing. Still, I kept riding my bike in the snow and, over the weekend, renewed the lease on the small vegetable plot I…

After this Spring Festival, my weight dropped by about 1 kg, and my son's by nearly 5 kg. We have finally broken the old vicious cycle of "gain three jin every holiday" and entered a virtuous cycle. Most importantly, I have cultivated in my son…

After my child started winter break, I did not rush to arrange various academic catching-up projects, but instead took him and his mother out cycling once a day. The route was not far: from Zizhu Bridge to Xiangshan, then back from the foot of Yuquan…

Only exercise that makes you sweat can truly be called aerobic exercise. In winter it is cold and people do not sweat easily, so everyone likes to hole up at home (northerners call this cating through winter) and avoid exercise. This is why the incidence…

A statistic released by China's National Health Commission is rather embarrassing: among Chinese adults, only 18% keep exercising. Diseases related to inactivity are therefore becoming more common. Many young people lack exercise because work is too busy. Had it not been for a pandemic, I…

I have treated many patients who benefited from various forms of exercise—swimming, running, brisk walking, qigong, Tai Chi, cycling, and ball games, to name only a few. Some survived longer, some had their complications controlled, and some effectively prevented tumor recurrence. So it can be…

Human beings have survived in the harsh natural world since ancient times, always following the law of natural selection, survival of the fittest—the elimination of the unfit. Recently I came across a news report: at the Nangang Campus of Heilongjiang Provincial Hospital, in the Urology…