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UK-based health club operator Fitness First plans to open sites in India and Russia as part of an ambitious expansion programme.
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16 Jan 2007
Kirklees Active Leisure has completed the £1.1m refurbishment of Dewsbury Sports Centre’s fitness facilities.
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02 Nov 2006
The Commons Select Committee for Culture, Media and Sport has heard that unless there are some dramatic changes, the legacy for grassroots sport from the 2012 Olympics is likely to be minimal.
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25 Oct 2006
Prime Minister Tony Blair has urged the public to take more responsibility for fitness and diet in the wake of a new report which has revealed that English adults have the highest rate of obesity in Europe.
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13 Oct 2006
A four-year drive to reduce obesity in the town of Colac in Victoria, Australia, has resulted in 1,800 children weighing less, watching less television, eating more healthily and engaging in more sport.
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11 Oct 2006
Engaging the consumer, one of the health and fitness industry’s biggest challenges, will be the topic of the Fitness Industry Association’s (FIA) forthcoming Industry Summit in November.
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11 Oct 2006
A new study in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) claims that physical exercise has little impact on obesity in young children.
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06 Oct 2006
Sports minister Richard Caborn has written to the Institute for Sport, Parks and Leisure (ISPAL) to offer his support to the newly launched professional body.
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05 Oct 2006
According to the Fitness Industry Association’s (FIA) latest State of the Industry Report, UK consumers now have, on average, seven private and two public health and fitness facilities within two miles of where they live.
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01 Oct 2006
The new Institute for Sport, Parks and Leisure (ISPAL) – which launched on 1 September – was formally unveiled to the sector for the first time at Leisure Industry Week (LIW) in Birmingham last week.
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01 Oct 2006
The International Health, Racquet & Sportsclub Association (IHRSA) has announced that Jarod Cogswell, general manager of ClubSport Oregon, has been awarded the first John McCarthy Institute Merit Scholarship.
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19 Sep 2006
Three leisure centres across the UK have teamed up with children’s activity solutions provider ZigZag to offer new interactive gyms, which are designed to engage young people in kinetic training without them even realising it.
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19 Sep 2006
The number of overweight people in the world has overtaken the number of malnourished for the first time, with a billion people now considered heavier than advised – almost one in six of the world’s population.
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24 Aug 2006
The government has unveiled a new attempt to tackle obesity in the UK by appointing a ‘minister for fitness’.
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23 Aug 2006
Games consoles have been fitted to workout equipment at a south Wales gym to encourage youngsters to do more exercise.
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27 Jul 2006
Prime Minister Tony Blair has urged the public to take responsibility for their own health.
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26 Jul 2006
Leisure trust Perth & Kinross Leisure (PKL) has organised liveACTIVE week to celebrate health, fun and fitness to tackle obesity in Perthshire.
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21 Jul 2006
Exeter City Council has invested £22,500 in a new swimming programme designed to help tackle junior obesity levels.
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10 Jul 2006
Body By Brandy 4 Kidz – an independent, not-for-profit children’s gym – has opened in the US, in Boston, Massachusetts.
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07 Jul 2006
Independent health club Fitness 2000 in Great Yarmouth has received a £16,000 grant from the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund to fully finance a new weight management programme for children using a Zig Zag Sportwall.
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14 Jun 2006
Purely Nutrition – a nutritional and physical activity advisor – has devised a training scheme called Phunky Foods to teach young people about the importance of good health.
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18 May 2006
Public Health Minister Caroline Flint has announced the publication of new practical tools for GPs and other health professionals to help patients lose weight and improve their health.
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04 May 2006
A pilot programme to tackle the issue of obesity in children diagnosed as either overweight or clinically obese has been a success in Northern Ireland.
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11 Apr 2006
A new programme has been launched in Kent to try to find out the effects of brisk and regular walking on children’s health and obesity levels.
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06 Apr 2006
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
Health and fitness companies in South Korea are expanding their efforts in an attempt to reduce the country’s increasing obesity rates.
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14 Mar 2006
A new children’s fitness programme has been launched at Llanishen Leisure Centre in Cardiff to tackle inactivity and obesity among 11- to 14-year-olds.
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02 Feb 2006
The health and fitness industry continues to face tough trading conditions with first quarter results in 2006 crucial to continuing the early signs of recovery in the market.
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10 Jan 2006
Dr Kenneth Cooper – founder of the Cooper Institute in the US and an expert on preventing disease through exercise – revealed his recent findings at the WRIGHT Foundation Exercise Referral Conference, held at Birmingham’s NEC on 10 November.
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21 Nov 2005
Health club members in the US who take exercise to treat specific health conditions are now eligible for tax deductions.
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11 Oct 2005
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