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Fewer than half of children now get enough physical activity to produce health benefits

(24/02/2010)

According to statistics, one in 25 deaths (1.9 million) results from inactivity at a cost of £8.3 billion per year. A team of experts from the University of Essex has come up with a ten point plan to put children back in touch with nature, tackle the growing problem of obesity and save society millions of pounds. In a new report called Nature, Childhood, Health and Life Pathways, Professor Jules Pretty and colleagues from the Interdisciplinary Centre for Environment and Society (iCES) and Cen... [more]

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