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Attention focused on Road Safety Week from 19 to 25 November 2012
Members of the Guernsey Bicycle Group with light-coloured reflective clothing gather to promote safe winter cycling (click image to expand - ©RLLord) With the end of British Summer Time (BST) on 28...
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National Institute for Health states that walking and cycling should be the...
Deputy Peter Harwood, Guernsey's Chief Minister, walks to work as often as he can (click image to expand - ©RLLord) Walking and cycling should become the norm for short journeys and should be...
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Registration opens for Guernsey’s 2013 ITEX Rotary walk
2012 ITEX Rotary walkers arriving at Petit Bot on Guernsey's south coast (click image to expand - image courtesy of ITEX) Registration for the 2013 Itex Rotary Walk has opened. Organisers hope that...
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Living Streets Guernsey mapped lunch time walks for Weight Wise Week from 19...
The PEH is running a WEIGHT WISE week from 19 to 26 January 2013. Living Streets Guernsey has developed two lunch time walks for staff at the Princess Elizabeth Hospital following the success of Living...
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Living Streets Walk to Work Week from 13 to 17 May 2013
(please click on image to be taken to Living Street Walk to Work Week webpage) British charity Living Streets is urging employees to get a ticket to stride for their daily commute this May. Walk to...
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Call for safer streets for cycling and walking as Tour de France begins
Go20 launch (click image to expand – image courtesy of Brake) Road safety charity Brake has renewed calls for drivers and authorities across the British Isles to GO 20 as the Tour de France begins, to...
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Walking and bicycling to work can reduce risk of severe health issues
People who walk to work are around 40% less likely to have diabetes as those who drive, according to a study published in the paper “Active Travel to Work and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in the United...
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Older men who walked more each week reduced their stroke risk more
Vic Richer and Albert Matthews raising money for several charities on the 20 Km World Aid Walk on 7 May 2012 (click image to expand – ©RLLord) Older men who walked at least one to two hours each day...
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The Kings’s Fund supports active travel for improved public health
The King’s Fund, an independent charity working to improve health and health care in England, has produced the report ‘Improving the Public’s Health‘, which states that investing in the right public...
View ArticleSitting for long periods increases heart failure risk in men
Sitting for long periods increases heart failure risk in men, even for those who exercise regularly, according to new research published in the American Heart Association journal Circulation: Heart...
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