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Lazy lifestyles reducing British life expectancy: experts
Xinhua News ^ | April 9, 2014 | By Mu Xuequan

Posted on 04/09/2014 4:58:58 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

LONDON - Today's British people are "the least active generation in history" and that lack of exercise is leading to around 37,000 premature deaths a year, according to a parliamentary report published on Tuesday.

Published by the All Party Commission on Physical Activity, the report calls for radical changes to "turn back the toxic tide of inactivity," including altering the way schools are run to ensure that children take more exercise, and changes in town and transport planning in order to make it easier for people to make more journeys on foot or by bicycle.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.xinhuanet.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: health

1 posted on 04/09/2014 4:58:58 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Onslow’s fault


2 posted on 04/09/2014 5:00:51 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

socialist deathcare in the uk is responsible for lower lifespans. the people just don’t care b/c they know they won’t get decent medical coverage unless they’re nobility or muslim.


3 posted on 04/09/2014 5:03:09 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

More like the NHS.


4 posted on 04/09/2014 5:35:57 PM PDT by struggle
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Pikers, abortions have a greater total!


5 posted on 04/09/2014 6:04:07 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Unintended Consequences: Expanded Autism Spectrum now includes the entire Obama Administration)
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To: RetiredTexasVet

They kill that many each year through abortions, but they do heat their hospitals with the bodies, whereas the others must be too big for the heating ovens.


6 posted on 04/09/2014 6:05:45 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Unintended Consequences: Expanded Autism Spectrum now includes the entire Obama Administration)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Fix your teeth you blimey’s!
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/06/article-2169848-13F5836A000005DC-387_306x423.jpg


7 posted on 04/09/2014 6:13:23 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: minnesota_bound

Thats just racist. :-) snicker


8 posted on 04/09/2014 6:23:42 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: GeronL
Onslow’s fault

Oi! Daisy! Git me another beer; and while yer ope, change the channel on the telee.

9 posted on 04/09/2014 7:47:28 PM PDT by seowulf (Cogito cogito, ergo cogito sum. Cogito.---Ambrose Bierce)
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