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Physical activity and urban environment

August 6, 2018 Andrew To
The Struggle 2017; Patricia Piccinini @ Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Aug 2018

The Struggle 2017; Patricia Piccinini @ Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Aug 2018

Physical activity is one of the most important determinants of our cardiovascular risk, and not being active is responsible for more than 5 million deaths per year worldwide.

Professor Sallis from the University of California, San Diego, published an interesting article in the Lancet in 2016 outlining the importance of our neighbourhoods with different levels of walkability in influencing the amount of physical activity of the people living in those neighbourhoods.


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In Coronary artery disease, Diet, Cardiac drugs Tags Coronary artery disease, prevention

Yum char – balanced diet?

September 5, 2017 Andrew To
Yum char and calories 2017 DSC_7588.jpg

Yum char is hugely popular in Chinese. From the heart point of view,

-       multiple small plates make it quite hard to work out the right food group proportions

-       many dim sums contain high overall fat content, especially saturated fat

-       many dim sums contain very high salt content.

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In Diet Tags Coronary artery disease, diet, prevention

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