Get moving every hour
Introducing more activity into your day doesn’t need to be extreme. Simply make sure you break up the time you spend sitting, whether that’s walking to the kitchen to make a cuppa during the TV ad breaks or whizzing round with the vacuum and duster.
Research suggests that gardening is a great activity for warding off joint, muscle and back pain in older age. A study of over-50s by Portsmouth University found that doing some weekly digging reduced your likelihood of chronic pain. Meanwhile, Japanese research found