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We’ve reached a tipping point in the healthy living revolution, with Healthy New Towns and Sporting Future two huge opportunities to embrace, says Liz Terry
HCM issue 3 2016
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s pledge to make addressing the “great scandal” of
childhood obesity a top priority of this Parliament has been dismissed as ineffective by the
boss of one of Britain’s top fitness companies.
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22 May 2015
Is the health and fitness industry approaching children's fitness in the right way? Kate Cracknell asks the experts for their views
HCM issue 1 2013
A new approach to physical education (PE) – based on physical literacy and “fun fitness” –
could transform school sport and help all children embrace physical activity.
news •
14 Nov 2016
Educated and experienced fitness professionals have been identified as the top
fitness sector trend for 2012, according to American College of Sports Medicine
(ACSM) research.
news •
22 Nov 2011
Local councils in England have warned that government cuts to public health funding could
thwart efforts to tackle obesity.
news •
18 Jul 2016
SHOKK, the youth fitness brand, has opened its first US site in Anaheim, California, as part of plans to expand its global operations.
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18 Sep 2008
Children in Barrow, Cumbria, have just become the first in the UK to trial a new electronic playground technology.
product innovation •
02 Aug 2007
Technology developer X-Doria has created a new piece of wearable kit allowing
parents to set physical activity goals for their children, also enabling them
to keep tabs on how much exercise their kids are doing.
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30 Jun 2014
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.
news •
14 Jun 2006
The David Lloyd Leisure (DLL) health club in Warrington opened a facility exclusively for children over the May bank holiday weekend.
news •
01 Jun 2004
The Department of Health is investing an extra £5m in getting children and
families to exercise and play more sports.
news •
19 Aug 2013
Parents have been warned to "take off the blinkers" over how active their children are to prevent an increase in childhood obesity levels, according to new research from the British Heart Foundation (BHF).
news •
24 Nov 2009
Y-USA (the YMCA of the USA) has teamed up with the Healthy Weight Partnership to start
offering the Mind, Exercise, Nutrition, Do it! (MEND) programme across the US.
news •
01 Sep 2015
Having taken the US by storm since its launch last week, and with UK users also getting in
on the act, Pokémon Go is being held up as an unlikely antidote to physical inactivity.
news •
11 Jul 2016
As part of the ongoing push across the physical activity sector to engage
youngsters in exercise from an early age, leisure trust Freedom Leisure is to
train its staff in providing fitness classes and gym sessions tailored to teenagers.
news •
23 Dec 2014
A new study has found that taking part in structured exercise such as team sports can
reduce levels of depression in boys from the age of nine to 11.
news •
22 Mar 2019
This year’s National Fitness Day – the largest celebration of physical activity in the UK –
will see schools included in the initiative for the first time as organiser ukactive targets a
bigger and better event than ever before.
news •
08 May 2015
Major operators such as Fitness First, Parkwood Leisure and Places for People Leisure have
signed up to offer free health and fitness sessions to members and non-members alike
across their sites as part of National Fitness Day.
news •
29 Jul 2015
A South Korean study finds exercise can help control BECTS, a form of childhood epilepsy
HCM issue 9 2014
Exercise during pregnancy may protect children from disease later in life, according to a recent study from the US
HCM issue 3 2017
The United States childhood obesity crisis may be lessening, according to new
research released by the government.
news •
14 Aug 2013
18-year-old Luke Lancaster has set up an award-winning programme that has
helped more than 5,000 young people learn how to lead a healthy lifestyle and
tackle childhood obesity.
news •
09 Jun 2014
Childhood obesity strategy further delayed, with sugar tax and physical activity unlikely to feature
The government’s long overdue childhood obesity strategy is facing further delays, with
the document now not expected until after the EU referendum.
news •
26 Feb 2016
Sports and Leisure Management (SLM) – the company behind Everyone Active –
has won the first two contracts under its new public health division Everyone
Health, designed to provide evidence-based preventative and treatment
services for local authorities and Clinical Commissioning Groups.
news •
15 May 2014
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.
news •
05 Jan 2016
Structured fitness programmes have the potential to help children become more physically
active, stronger and more agile than conventional PE lessons, according to the results of a
new pilot study.
news •
08 Apr 2016
Scottish brand Beat Theory Fitness has opened its first franchise site,
offering heart-rate-monitored group interval training to members in London.
news •
22 Dec 2017
Children aged between 4 and 6 who have better cardiorespiratory health than their peers also do
better on cognitive tests and other measures of brain function.
news •
26 Mar 2021
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Consumers’ growing love of strength training is to be welcomed, as this long-neglected modality has a renaissance, however, it’s vital we continue to make the case for cardio
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