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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
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
The Fitness Industry Association (FIA) is to host a series of roadshows about how to access funds for facility development and work with local government to improve business.
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11 Oct 2005
LA Fitness chief executive Fred Turok has announced that he intends to lead the fitness industry into a period of consolidation and launch new concepts to attract consumers currently ‘underserved’ by the health club market.
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22 Aug 2005
New research by Mintel into consumer attitudes towards participating in sports has revealed that fundraising sports events could be a way of boosting activity levels and that people are increasingly opting to keep fit in ways which cost nothing.
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19 Aug 2005
Cardiff Council has invested £100,000 to develop a new specialist fitness facility at Llanishen Leisure Centre which will be used to introduce children to the gym as part of a new initiative being run in partnership with Precor.
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18 Aug 2005
A health expert has called for a ‘Jamie Oliver of the gym’ to tackle the problem of childhood obesity.
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25 Jul 2005
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
Staff from Hertsmere Leisure have been visiting local schools in the Borehamwood area to encourage children to become healthier and fitter by eating nutritious foods and exercising regularly.
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12 Jul 2005
A mobile wellness centre has been launched in the Wear Valley to tackle the problems of inactivity in isolated and socially deprived areas.
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05 Jul 2005
The British Medical Council (BMA) has called for tough action to stem the rise in childhood obesity.
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30 Jun 2005
Health and fitness professionals can receive childhood obesity prevention training thanks to a new course from the Weight Management Centre.
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14 Jun 2005
More than 700 people took part in the eighth David Lloyd Great Mile Run in Edinburgh on 7 May.
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17 May 2005
Official figures from the Department of Health show that an increasing number of boys and girls under the age of 11 are now obese.
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29 Apr 2005
Charitable trust, Hertsmere Leisure, has opened a children’s fitness facility as part of its social objectives for the local community.
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19 Apr 2005
A cross-governmental action plan for improving the nation’s health and activity levels has been published.
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11 Mar 2005
A new children’s fitness facility is set to open at Gateshead Leisure Leisure Centre on 11 April.
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03 Mar 2005
An independent research company has declared that claims that childhood obesity has hit epidemic levels are “mere speculation”.
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23 Feb 2005
Minister for health John Hutton has praised Southwark’s exercise referral scheme as a wonderful example of a partnership approach to health.
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23 Feb 2005
The Wright Foundation is to introduce seven advanced courses in key areas of exercise referral in January 2005.
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07 Dec 2004
Memberships have gone on sale for a children’s fitness facility at Edmonton Leisure Centre.
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15 Sep 2004
Two fitness centres designed to combat obesity and physical inactivity among children will be officially launched this month.
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31 Aug 2004
Former Paralympic athlete Kevin Saunders is pushing his wheelchair across the US in a 2,000-mile health and fitness tour known as The Big Push.
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10 Aug 2004
Bladerunner, the corporate health and fitness provider, has acquired Sport & Mind, the operator of dual use sporting facilities at schools and colleges.
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22 Jun 2004
The David Lloyd Leisure (DLL) health club in Warrington opened a facility exclusively for children over the May bank holiday weekend.
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01 Jun 2004
Around two thirds of the population of England are overweight according to a report published today by the House of Commons select committee on health.
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27 May 2004
Chief Medical Officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, has today published a hard-hitting report on physical activity and health in England that he has called a ‘wake-up call’ to the nation.
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29 Apr 2004
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