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The inaugural National Childhood Obesity Week was launched today (5 July) by National Obesity Forum (NOF) and social enterprise Mind, Exercise, Nutrition...Do it! (MEND)
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05 Jul 2010
New research from the National Heart Forum (NHF) has suggested that an increase in obesity levels among children across the UK may be starting to "level off".
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04 Nov 2009
Harry Macmillan, chief executive of children's charity MEND (Mind, Exercise, Nutrition... Do it!) has called for a more collaborative approach to address child obesity in the UK.
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20 Sep 2011
FitNation, the membership group of more than 200 independent health club and small chains, has joined forces with youth fitness equipment supplier Shokk.
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25 Jul 2005
There has been a four-fold increase in the number of children admitted to hospital for problems
related to obesity in England and Wales between 2000 and 2009. In 2009 there were 3,806 children
admitted to hospital for obesity-related conditions - compared with a mere 872 in 2000.
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13 Jun 2013
A group of leading GPs and health experts have called on the government to
create an emergency taskforce to quell the rising epidemic of childhood obesity.
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01 Sep 2014
Stockton Council and contractors Morgan Sindall have confirmed that Billingham Forum is on track to reopen its doors in June following an £18.5m revamp.
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09 Feb 2011
Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council and leisure operator Tees Active have announced that the Billingham Forum complex is to reopen on June, following an £18.5m overhaul.
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12 May 2011
The Fitness Industry Association (FIA) has established a Joint Consultative Forum with a number of royal medical colleges and faculties as part of efforts to increase the number of exercise referrals from GPs.
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14 Dec 2010
The Obesity Awareness and Solutions Trust (TOAST) has joined forces with leisure operators this week (12-18 March) to highlight the problem of obesity in the UK.
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16 Mar 2006
New research published as part of the government's National Child Measurement Programme has revealed that more than one in five children in the UK are starting school overweight or obese.
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14 Dec 2009
Greenwich Leisure Limited (GLL) has grown its network of Better gyms with the purchase
of FitSpace - strengthening its position in the low-cost market.
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15 Dec 2016
Leeds has become the first UK city to successfully lower the rates of childhood obesity –
according to data from the national child measurement programme (NCMP).
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01 May 2019
After 17 successful years the Facilities Management
Forum is set to be bigger and better than ever in
2016.
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28 Jan 2016
REPs Registrar Cliff Collins is due to give a presentation at the 8th National Forum in Limerick, Ireland, in early September outlining the prospects for developing closer relationships across the European Union through fitness professionals registers and by using common qualification standards for exercise professionals.
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22 Aug 2005
The London Development Agency (LDA) has awarded a four-year grant to the London Sports Forum for Disabled People (LSF) to project manage Inclusive Fitness Initiative (IFI) London.
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09 Feb 2010
North Hertfordshire-based Stevenage Leisure (SLL) has been nominated for a National Business Excellence Award.
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10 Apr 2006
A major £17m renovation of Billingham Forum, Stockton-on-Tees, has reached a milestone following the completion of internal infrastructure work and exterior improvements.
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19 Jul 2010
Regular exercise in early childhood can make a
major difference to metabolism and brain health over the course of a lifetime, according
to new findings.
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05 Jan 2016
Dr Rachel Pryke of the Royal College of General Practitioners talks to Kate Cracknell about a co-operative approach to combating the obesity epidemic
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Wellness Week 2019 has kicked off in Romagna, Italy. The event will run from 17 to 26
May.
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17 May 2019
A group of 40 people from business, academia, government and the voluntary sector have been drafted in by the Office for the National Statistics to help measure the nation's wellbeing.
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27 Jan 2011
Staff retention, leadership culture, professionalisation and quality standards will come
under the microscope at this year’s European Health & Fitness Forum (EHFF).
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31 Jan 2018
Olympic medalist Roger Black is set to open the 10th annual SIBEC UK and Europe forum in Portugal this November.
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25 Jan 2006
Fitness operator HITIO Gym has signed its first franchise agreement in the UK.
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15 Feb 2019
The UK trails other countries when it comes to early childhood physical activity, with no
cohesive approach between the devolved nations, according to a report by a parliamentary
group.
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19 Oct 2017
Billingham Forum has closed to the public in order to allow construction work on a £15m refurbishment scheme to get underway at the leisure complex, which is expected to last for 18 months.
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02 Jul 2009
FIBO - the annual international trade fair for fitness, wellness and health held
in Germany - has announced it will team up with the European Health &
Fitness Association (EHFA) to launch the inaugural European Health & Fitness
Forum.
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30 Jan 2014
The Sports & Leisure Facilities Forum is taking place this year
on 8 July, at the Hilton London Wembley hotel.
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04 Mar 2015
The newly-established forum will become a Federation at FIBO 2023 in Köln
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New research has found BMI to be a highly inaccurate measure of childhood obesity, leading current thinking and policy based on it into question
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