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Leisure centre in bid to beat obesity
7:00am Tuesday 28th August 2007
By Andrew Napier »
A HAMPSHIRE leisure centre will help tackle child obesity thanks to a £47,000 grant from The Big Lottery Wellbeing Programme.
River Park Leisure Centre in Winchester has set up a programme to tackle the issue that is becoming a national crisis.
By 2020 at least a fifth of boys and a third of girls in the UK will be obese unless action is taken now, says the Government.
The leisure centre programme will be known as MEND (Mind, Exercise, Nutrition...Do it) and will focus on families with overweight or obese children. Healthy eating and active lifestyles are at the heart of the scheme.
MEND consists of 18 free sessions over ten weeks and includes fun exercise sessions for the children participating in the programme and theory sessions for the children and their families.
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Potato dickhead, says...
9:27am Tue 28 Aug 07
Potato head wrote:Idiot - read the article. Do you not think this free program will have value for the people that are in need. Easy to knock incentives like this .
Does this mean they will not sell chocolate bars and fizzy drinks in the vending machines? Will the cafe only serve healthy, freshly cooked nutrionally balanced meals?
GRAHAM, SOUTHAMPTON says...
10:02am Tue 28 Aug 07
Ben Durutti, Shirley says...
3:50pm Tue 28 Aug 07
GRAHAM wrote:Taxi for GRAHAM!!!
I BET THE MONEY, WELL MOST OF IT, WILL BE SPENT ON TAXIS FOR THE TUBBIES TO GET TO AND FROM THE CENTRE AS WALKING MAY TIRE THEM OUT WHATS THE NEAREST COUNCIL ESTATE ? RUB YOUR HANDS WINCHESTER TAXI DRIVERS BUT UP GRADE THE SUSPENSION
graham, soton says...
3:58pm Tue 28 Aug 07
heavy winchester, winnal estate says...
5:18pm Tue 28 Aug 07
Missing the point again, says...
8:18pm Tue 28 Aug 07
Idiot - read the article. Do you not think this free program will have value for the people that are in need. Easy to knock incentives like this .
Hush your mouth fool. Of course I read the article.
The point is that this leisure centre is promoting health in an environment full of the junk food which now pervades our society. Pushing chips on fat kids is pretty immoral, even if you do give them a free ticket to the swimming pool.
P.s. you really are a rude little *******
Nick, Winchester says...
12:13pm Wed 29 Aug 07
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Potato head, says...
8:49am Tue 28 Aug 07