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The industry is underselling its impact and scope Muir Gray The Living Longer Better Programme It was great to see the words ‘mental health’ on the cover of HCM (HCM issue 5 2022) because the fitness industry and all its professionals are underselling their offer significantly by using the term ‘physical activity’. At The Living Longer Better Programme (www.livelongerbetter.uk), we now only use the phrase ‘activity PCE’ (physical, cognitive and emotional) to describe the Active Partnerships’ offer. Activity that’s physical directly affects the brain and reduces the risk of dementia, as we describe in our book, Increase your Brainability and Reduce your Risk of Dementia. It also increases people’s emotional
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wellbeing, particularly if done in groups. Just look at the number of smiles in the HCM photos! So, down with physical activity and up with activity PCE.
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Exercise increases people’s emotional wellbeing, particularly if done in groups
It was great to see the words ‘mental health’ on the cover of HCM