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Interview with Baroness Tanni-Grey Thompson

Posted in Obesity, Olympics, Women and sport, tagged , on July 23, 2010| Leave a Comment »

Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson talks to FPH’s Suvi Kingsley about the Olympic bid and legacy, and her top tips for parents struggling to get their kids moving.

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Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson highlights importance of the Olympics to the nation’s health

Posted in Chronic Disease, Obesity, Uncategorized, tagged , on July 7, 2010| Leave a Comment »

Eleven time Paralympian gold medallist Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson spoke to the UK FPH conference today (7 July) about the importance of the 2012 Olympics in encouraging physical activity, particularly amongst women and children.

She called for the 2012 budget to be protected from cuts, underlining the potential cost savings to the NHS if it can be used to promote and support people to exercise more often. Inactivity costs the economy an estimated £8.2 billion a year in England, and Grey-Thompson challenged the public health community to find more innovative ways of encouraging participation in sports and exercise.

Physical activity contributes to the prevention and management of conditions including coronary heart disease, diabetes, cancer, mental ill health and obesity. Grey-Thompson said that “Promoting physical activity is integral to the preventative agenda. In a time when budgets are being cut across all public services, the NHS and wider economy cannot continue to bear the increasing financial burden of preventable conditions.”

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12 Steps to Better Public Health

Posted in Alcohol, Health Inequalities, Obesity, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 18, 2010| Leave a Comment »

The Faculty of Public Health today publishes our joint manifesto on public health, alongside the Royal Society of Public Health. 12 Steps to Better Public Health offers a dozen practical recommendations that, if adopted by the next government, will improve the UK’s health and well-being for the new decade.

The joint public health manifesto calls for:

  1. A minimum price of 50p per unit of alcohol sold
  2. No junk food advertising in pre-watershed television
  3. Ban smoking in cars with children
  4. Chlamydia screening for university and college freshers
  5. 20 mph limit in built up areas
  6. A dedicated school nurse for every secondary school
  7. 25% increase in cycle lanes and cycle racks by 2015
  8. Compulsory and standardised front-of-pack labelling for all pre-packaged food
  9. Olympic legacy to include commitment to expand and upgrade school sports facilities and playing fields across the UK
  10. Introduce presumed consent for organ donation
  11. Free school meals for all children under 16
  12. Stop the use of transfats

The full manifesto is available to read here, and the front-page Guardian story, with an accompanying podcast from our President Alan Maryon-Davis, is available to read here.

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