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· 6 min read
Sedentary lifestyle: what the WHO guidelines and accelerometer data say
What counts as a sedentary lifestyle by WHO numbers, why there is no hours-per-day limit for sitting, and what 36,383 people wearing accelerometers showed about activity and mortality.
- recovery
- habits
- sleep
· 10 min read
What to bring to a doctor's appointment when you keep a symptom diary
Your diary won't fit in a short appointment. What research says about consultation time, what NICE asks a diary to record, and how to turn weeks of entries into one usable page.
- symptom tracking
- self-tracking
- habits
· 8 min read
Quitting smoking: what the recovery timeline actually means, day by day
The WHO's published recovery timeline for quitting smoking, why it describes a population rather than your body, and what a quit-date tracker in an app can and can't tell you.
- quit smoking
- habits
- symptom tracking
· 9 min read
Medication adherence: why sticking to a schedule is what decides the outcome
WHO's own figures on how many people don't take medication as prescribed, why blaming patients is the wrong response, what NHS says about a missed dose, and what a tracker can and can't fix.
- medications
- habits
- symptom tracking