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Helen Draycott Advertiser 3 Feb 11
Chuckery Primary has volunteered to become the first school in Walsall to take part in a pilot project using a new exercise initiative to help them maintain a healthy weight – using the popular Nintendo Wii games console.
It is hoped that the 17 primary schools in the St Matthews, Paddock, Palfrey and Pleck areas will sign up to the scheme to promote healthy eating, regular sports activities and maintaining a good diet…
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B'ham Mail 3 Feb 11
Ambulance fleets across the country, including the West Midlands, are being revamped with wider stretchers and lifting gear to cope with the increasing number of fat patients, it has been reported.
Standard ambulances are being stocked with heavy-duty wheelchairs, stretchers and lifting cushions…
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Alison Dayani B'ham Mail 18 Jan 11
Numbers of patient registered as obese in the West Midlands have surged by nearly 28,000 in a year to over half a million people.
It coincided with a sharp rise in the number of people diagnosed with diabetes of more than 15,000 at the same time, leading charity Diabetes UK revealed…
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Paul Wilson Train with Wilson 15 Dec 10
At Walsall Wood's Fat Burner Boot Camp
Have you heard? The West Midlands has the highest obesity rate in Europe with a staggering 29% of obese Brits in the West Midlands.
Here are two of my awesome Walsall Fat Burner Boot Campers, Stella and Ash, who talked to the Daily Mirror (page 22-23 14/12/10) about the news…
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Express & Star 14 Dec 10
Obesity levels in the West Midlands are the highest in Europe, figures released today revealed. The statistics from the Association of Public Health Observatories show that the UK is the fattest member of the EU.
And the West Midlands has the highest level of obesity in the UK. The survey compared all regions across 27 countries in Europe using 37 health indicators in 2006…
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Keith Povall The Sturdy Soapbox 15 Nov 10
Bonus points, Christmas lights and curry
Today was my monthly meeting with weight counsellor Marjorie Dawes, I mean Jenny.
Now, whenever I go down there, her calibrated scales always weigh about a kilo heavier than mine, partly because when I stand on hers I am fully clothed. I’ll leave the rest of the sentence to your imagination…
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Sine Heitmann 11 Nov 10
Walsall is famously the fattest town in England – the most common reasons for this is the high availability of fast food, less time being spent on cooking and lack of exercise. In Zanzibar and Jambiani, there is no McDonald’s or Burger King (I am not sure whether there is one in the whole of Tanzania) and a lot of people have a strong physical ability and toned bodies that some Walsall people might be envious of.
However, this does not come from working out regularly (we had to explain to our students what a gym is), but more out of necessity. As there are hardly any cars around, locals rely on walking or riding bicycles a lot while carrying heavy loads. The women have perfected the art of balancing their shopping or harvest on their heads while walking for miles, and many young men can easily climb a 20m high coconut tree without the help of any ropes…
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YouTube 19 Sep 10
Walsall’s Paul Wilson, Fat Loss Expert gives you this great workout to melt fat and tone your shape with the Prisoner Toning Workout! Totally Kicks butt! Discover the secret to get rid of your extra weight.
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Express & Star 10 Aug 10
Councils across the West Midlands have spent tens of thousands of pounds treating guests to buffets with sandwiches, biscuits, coffee, tea and cake, the Express & Star can reveal.
Walsall Council topped the spending chart with an £84,769 bill between June last year and May this year, figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act revealed…
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Cllr Ian Shires 7 Jul 10
The health of the people of Walsall continues to be worse than the England average. Over 40% of the population lives in the most deprived areas of England.
The difference in life expectancy between people living in the most and least deprived areas in Walsall is over 8 years for men and almost 6 years for women.
These are not my words, they are an extract from the “NHS Health Profile 2010″ on Walsall I received yesterday…