Encouraging Healthy Steps

If you were to encourage someone in your circle to take a sort of positive step for their health in the spring, what would you say to them in terms of motivation or support or whatever you're thinking of. Improve, you can improve your sense of wellbeing by being more active. That's what I find. And getting out in the sunshine, is it vitamin E? I can't remember what it is in the sun, but it just, you lose pounds. It's a social thing to do. It can be if you're going out for walks and so forth with others, it can be good family time. Yeah. Does that cover the question? Yeah. Yes. Absolutely. Absolutely does. Absolutely. And I know, again, you mentioned some of the points here, but thinking about the kinds of behaviours and attitudes that support good health, is there one that really speaks to you right now? and why, and are you doing anything to act on it? Well, because of the cholesterol, I'm now cutting right back on the carbs and watching that. I just wondered if it needs to be better awareness of what carbs can do. Again, I didn't think I was an overeater of carbs, but, and processed foods you get warned about, ultra-processed food. So, you know, we've got tins in the cupboard of food and then you get told they're ultra-processed and you think, oh, I've been eating them since I was a child, you know, tins of baked beans or this or that, tin of vegetables, and you get told now it's ultra-processed and not very healthy. Oh, okay, where was this information when I was younger? So, yeah. Yeah, have I missed anything there, Arif? No, no, yeah, you have, you have. So diet awareness in public, I don't think is, when I was a boy, there was an advert that used to say six slices a day is the well-balanced way of bread. Now, if you had six slices a day now, your cholesterol, you know, as it used to say, drink a pint of milk a day, was an advert when I was a boy. Again, the milk market, think board, not surprisingly came up with that. So if you recommended that today, you'd be laughed at, because of putting on weight, so the more nutritional information that can get out there to help people keep healthy, the better, because there's too much comfort food around and too much sugary stuff, and so that's, you realise this as you get older, that we've bombarded with not the good stuff, but the bad foods, if you like, the comfort foods, but yeah, I hope that makes sense. It does. Absolutely. Thank you very much. And on that note, what support do you think helps people stay on track with their sort of health goals in the spring? I mean, family, community, reminders, planning, mindset, anything that? Yeah. I speak to patients about weight loss, And some say, I'm very busy. I don't have time for exercise. Yeah, I need injections rather than exercise. I'd rather go down that route rather than look at changing lifestyles. So I think I've gone off piste. Is that right? Is that OK? Yeah, I think I have a question. Yeah. Yeah. OK. So, yeah, part of my role is to encourage more exercise and well-being activity. So when I chat to someone who's maybe depressed, you know, and they like sports, how about doing sport in mind, which is a exercise plus meeting other people who are struggling with their mental health and can support each other.