Today is World No Tobacco Day 2020, organised by The World Health Organisation. The focus this year is protecting youth from industry manipulation and preventing them from tobacco and nicotine use.
Some babies can develop a flatter head shape on one side in the first few months after birth. As the babies’ brain grows, which happens very fast, it will push out into the soft bones of the baby’s head. The other way the bone grows is the force acting from the outside by the baby’s ever strengthening neck and torso muscles pulling onto the covering of the bones (the periosteum). The muscles are not used as much in utero, but once born they are used all of the time, not least of which for feeding.
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We are now into week six of living under quarantine measures and for many of you this has meant working from home, being furloughed or not able to work at all. We have been fortunate that this has been paired with some lovely sunshine and still being allowed to get outside for exercise.
Many of you may have increased the amount of running, cycling and working out from home you are doing and some may have just started undertaking these activities for the first time. This is of course great for both the body and mind (as long as you’re building it up slowly), but whilst your feet and legs are clocking up the miles, how are your calf muscles feeling about this?
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