4 December

There's lots of debate around diet now, and people are learning amazing new things about nutrition, and reaffirming some old wisdom about food at the same time etc. What isn't questioned to the same extent, but it's coming, is exercise. Thanks to Adrian for this link. Professor Peter O'Sullivan is taking on some of the sacred truths around core stability and strengthening, and in the process questioning a lot of the assumptions we have around exercise more generally. (Worth a watch too if you've ever suffered from lower back pain.) Much of exercise science, and its hangers-on like personal trainers and gyms, is a very damaging fairy tale. People think 'working out' is healthy, but much of it is a full-on assault on the body.