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Is ukactive's campaign to tackle inactivity on track to achieve its goals?
HCM issue 4 2014
ukactive CEO David Stalker has warned of the dangers of focusing public health policy
solely on tackling obesity, after a trio of scientists said it was time to "bust the myth"
about exercise.
news •
23 Apr 2015
Physical inactivity is killing twice as many Europeans as obesity, according to a
landmark report from the University of Cambridge.
news •
15 Jan 2015
Tackling physical inactivity must become a frontline health priority for the UK’s next
government, ahead of the separate issue of obesity, says a new Health Select Committee
report published today.
news •
25 Mar 2015
A brand new industry event aiming to bring together a wide range of sectors to tackle the
physical inactivity crisis will take place at London Olympia next year.
news •
06 Oct 2015
CEO of ukactive David Stalker discusses the parliamentary group set up to examine physical inactivity
HCM issue 2 2014
An influential new report from a British think tank has given further support to
the notion that inactivity, not obesity, is at the root of the UK’s health crisis.
news •
19 Aug 2014
Physical inactivity among young people could cost the UK economy up to £53bn.
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01 Apr 2014
The new director of health and wellbeing at Public Health England talks to Steven Ward about his mission to tackle the ‘wicked problem' of physical inactivity
HCM issue 2 2014
ukactive has won the Trade Body Campaign of the Year award for its Turning the
tide of inactivity campaign at the Public Affairs Awards 2014.
news •
10 Dec 2014
Health and fitness professionals can receive childhood obesity prevention training thanks to a new course from the Weight Management Centre.
news •
14 Jun 2005
ukactive wants physical activity to rise 1 per cent a year for the next five years. Is this really achievable?
HCM issue 5 2014
MPs attending the first ever first Parliamentary
Debate on physical activity
have agreed the government has a large role to
play in kickstarting a reversal
of the current trend towards inactivity.
news •
19 Nov 2014
Public Health England (PHE) has today (23 October) published Everybody Active,
Every
Day, a framework for nationwide action to combat the physical inactivity
epidemic.
news •
23 Oct 2014
Accepting obesity as something to be catered for, rather than a tide to be
turned, would go against everything the health and industry believes in,
according to Health Club Management editor Kate Cracknell in her August leader
column.
news •
07 Aug 2014
The health and fitness sector must continue to highlight - both at government
level and with local GPs - the financial benefits of physical activity to achieve
a redistribution of public funds, according to ukactive chair Fred Turok.
news •
30 Apr 2014
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.
news •
14 Dec 2009
The government has launched a £372m strategy to help cut obesity levels in England.
news •
23 Jan 2008
The fitness sector needs to ensure it's maintaining ambitious targets when it comes to getting more people more active, says Liz Terry
HCM issue 4 2014
How should we define obesity – is it a disease, a disability or a lifestyle condition? And why does this definition matter? Kate Cracknell shares her thoughts
HCM issue 8 2014
Speaking at the ukactive Summit held today in London (7 November 2013), Sir
Keith Mills, founder of Nectar and Air Miles and former deputy chair of
LOCOG, criticised the way in which efforts are made to increase participation in
sport.
news •
07 Nov 2013
Premier Training International is to launch a new health and wellbeing course
geared towards those working on community schemes aimed at tackling the
UK’s physical inactivity crisis.
news •
24 Jun 2014
UK Health and fitness education provider Premier Global has partnered up with global
fitness educator the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) to transform the
education and training available to the UK's fitness professionals into the best in the world.
news •
28 Jun 2017
A new training course is looking to equip professionals working with very young children
with the skills to confidently deliver physical activity programmes to children as young as
two years old.
news •
19 Oct 2016
EuropeActive plans to grow usage of fitness centres to 80 million members across Europe by 2025. But how?
HCM issue 6 2014
The majority of UK adults spend five times longer in front of a TV, tablet, PC or mobile screen than they do exercising in a normal week, according to a recent poll.
news •
30 Sep 2014
Key stakeholders from a range of relevant UK industries will gather at five
regional forums next month to develop a cross sector approach to tackling
inactivity across the nation.
news •
26 Jun 2014
The number of people exercising for the
express purpose of benefiting their
health has more than doubled over the
past five years, according to new
research.
news •
26 Feb 2016
Three in ten Britons admit they rarely or never do sport and exercise, with
many citing lack of motivation and expensive facilities as their main source of
dissuasion, according to new research from Mintel.
news •
13 Mar 2014
Key academic thinkers in the area of physical activity and exercise met with
leaders from the leisure industry and public health in London on Wednesday, to
discuss solutions to the UK’s inactivity crisis.
news •
21 Feb 2014
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