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Caroline Iness

Liverpool ECHO reporter CAROLINE INNES only set out to burn a few calories and tone up. Over ten years later this chocoholic, vodka drinking, jogging-hater was not only a qualified personal trainer and fitness instructor but managed to run over 150 miles across the Sahara Desert. Join her regular blog for inspiration, tips and advice on how to get fit for life and stay that way..... and still eat the odd bar of chocolate!

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May 2008 Archives

Health is wealth - but to get it needs hard work

Posted by Caroline Innes on May 1, 2008 8:10 AM

A MAJOR study into the state of Liverpool's health is published today - and the report paints a sorry picture.

The Health is Wealth Commission found that only one in ten people in the city are active and life expectancy is more than three years less than the national average - seven years less than in the South East.

One solution to the problem, according to the experts, is to work with urban planners to design a city that encourages people to get active, to walk or cycle instead of driving around in their cars and to spend time out enjoying open spaces.

Similarly Professor Philip James, chairman of the International Obesity Task Force, says urban designers have created environments that encourage obesity by planning public spaces around automobiles.

This page contains an archive of all entries posted to Real Fitness in the May 2008. They are listed from oldest to newest.

March 2008 is the previous archive.

Many more can be found on the home page or by looking through the archives.