After working under intense pressure and scrutiny during the pandemic, I’m helping people with the most effective health intervention there is – exercise, says Devi Sridhar, Edinburgh University’s chair of global public health
After working under intense pressure and scrutiny during the pandemic, I’m helping people with the most effective health intervention there is – exercisePhotograph: FatCamera/Getty ImagesPhotograph: FatCamera/Getty Imagesquick skim of the other faces on the Zoom call shows that I’m clearly the oldest person on the personal training course. They’re probably wondering whether I’m having a midlife crisis triggered by the pandemic. Maybe I am.
Exercise is the most effective intervention to stay healthy and avoid disease and chronic pain. If you First, you’re never too old to start over and get a new qualification. We live in a strange system where teenagers are asked to decide what they want to do for the next 50 years of their life. But whether it’s at 25, 38 like me, or 65, there’s always the chance to go in a new direction, or re-evaluate where you are in life. It’s never “too late”.
Harmful stereotypes can become self-fulfilling, especially for brown women. In Britain , south Asian women are, and this starts at an early age. If you’re raised in a cultural context where you’re told exercise isn’t a priority or that exercise is for boys, then of course you avoid it because you feel like you don’t belong. There are few role models and little general encouragement.
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