# Making Health Fun - could it be as important as any other aspect of health? Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/saving-lives-in-slow-motion-4449011/making-health-fun-could-it-be-as-important-as-any-other-aspect-of-health Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/saving-lives-in-slow-motion-4449011/making-health-fun-could-it-be-as-important-as-any-other-aspect-of-health.md Podcast: [Saving Lives In Slow Motion](https://stenobird.com/podcast/saving-lives-in-slow-motion-4449011) Published: 2026-05-21T15:17:48+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/savinglivesinslowmotion/episodes/making-health-fun-could-it-be-as-important-as-any-other-aspe Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/60b20104ffcfab00117e6199/e/6a0dff403bbd73b46eff08e6/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/saving-lives-in-slow-motion-4449011/episodes/making-health-fun-could-it-be-as-important-as-any-other-aspect-of-health Duration seconds: 942 ## Resource In this episode I look at how we can make health fun. Many people find it hard to get going with healthy habits and I look at ways we can make them easier to access without thinking of them as ‘health’. Monkey brain and bad habits:  https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/saving-lives-in-slow-motion/id1573742958?i=1000597803315 Nushu circles:  https://digitize.library.ubc.ca/2025/04/10/nushu-chinas-secret-language-of-women-in-our-open-collection/ Padel benefits:  https://www.ltapadel.org.uk/play/benefits-of-playing-padel/ Queens College Step Test:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySQ5bawZpMo Dancing benefits:  https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1Hpr6R1f4M7f8Qc6fPGH2hg/why-dancing-is-the-best-way-to-enhance-your-brain-and-fitness Keep dancing:  https://www.uclahealth.org/news/article/keep-dancing-preserve-memory The IDEAL framework from my book:   https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/the-health-fix-dr-ayan-panja-new-years-resolutions Save your life in slow motion and those of others by subscribing now and sharing. Thank you for listening and for your support. It means a lot to me. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/saving-lives-in-slow-motion-4449011/episodes/making-health-fun-could-it-be-as-important-as-any-other-aspect-of-health/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/saving-lives-in-slow-motion-4449011/making-health-fun-could-it-be-as-important-as-any-other-aspect-of-health.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.