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Disney has decided to close its Healthy Habits exhibit that promoted healthy lifestyles at it's Epcot resort in Orlando, Florida, US.
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02 Mar 2012
Healthcare charity Nuffield Health has unveiled its new 'UK fitness map', which
has found that people living in Bloomsbury and Wimbledon, London are the
healthiest in the country.
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01 Nov 2011
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
A group of influential doctors and medical experts has called for governments globally to take tougher action in the battle against obesity levels.
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26 Aug 2011
Researchers from the University of Essex and London Metropolitan University have found that the measures of strength in children have fallen "dramatically" over the past decade.
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23 May 2011
Suffolk-based Abbeycroft Leisure has become the latest UK-based leisure trust to announce that it will launch a budget gym concept.
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13 Jan 2011
Research carried out by Indiana University in the US has revealed that an increased amount of exercise may be more beneficial to some people than to others in tackling obesity.
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28 Oct 2010
Exercise can help people reduce the intake of high risk, bodyweight-increasing foods.
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24 Sep 2010
iZone - a new youth health and fitness concept targeted at people between the ages of 11 and 15 years old - has been unveiled at Swansea's LC leisure complex.
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01 Sep 2010
Lack of exercise is not a major cause of childhood obesity, according to an 11-year research into child health.
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12 Jul 2010
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
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
A new strategy designed to improve the health of residents in New York City, US, has been announced by city mayor Michael Bloomberg and health commissioner Thomas Farley.
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17 Sep 2009
Jubilee Hall Clubs has hailed as a success a partnership with NHS Camden to create more opportunities for local residents to become active.
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05 May 2009
The Welsh Assembly Government has launched a new four-year strategy designed to increase the number of people walking and cycling as part of their daily lives.
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24 Feb 2009
Plans for a new £37m healthy living centre in New Cross Gate, south east London, have been approved by the London Borough of Lewisham. The development is part of a government funded initiative to regenerate 39 'poverty postcodes' in London.
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11 Aug 2008
Fred Turok, chair of the Fitness Industry Association (FIA), has pledged that the health and fitness industry would double any investment made by the government to improve the nation’s health.
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15 May 2008
The Scottish Government is to plough £6m into tackling childhood obesity.
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16 Apr 2008
SkillsActive and the Register of exercise Professionals (REPs) have begun the first stage of a review of qualifications structures for those exercise professionals who work with people with specialist needs including a survey of more than 2,000 members to assess current working practices.
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14 Apr 2008
The Mayor of London is to establish a collaborative London-wide body to reduce levels of childhood obesity in the capital in line with government targets.
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08 Feb 2008
The government has launched a £372m strategy to help cut obesity levels in England.
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23 Jan 2008
Addressing a Youth Sports Trust conference in Telford yesterday, culture secretary, James Purnell, said the government wants to create a “world class school sport system, a world class community sports system and a world class elite sport system,” with the ambition to offer every child five hours of sport each week.
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29 Nov 2007
Aston Villa players Thomas Sorensen and Craig Gardner have opened a new gym for children to tackle childhood obesity.
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01 May 2007
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 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
During the last week in August, Perth & Kinross Leisure (PKL) held LiveACTIVE Week, designed to promote health and fitness.
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06 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
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
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
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
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