A report out from the Institute for European Environmental Policy.
If a typical British adult were to walk just an hour more per week (equivalent to the difference in walking between a typical driver and a non-driver) this would counteract a weight increase of 2 stones over a decade, and a longer-term slide into obesity.
I thought you got fined, sent to jail, pressured into dropping dead from a heart attack, if you used Imperial measures these days?
Indeed and you didn’t point out that they were bansturbating. At least on the radio, their suggestion for improving fitness was to ban all cars from parking near schools. Will do wonders for anyone with the poor taste to live or work in these new zero-tolerance zones.
“…their suggestion for improving fitness was to ban all cars from parking near schools.”
How near…? A hundred yards..? A mile..?
Not really thought it through, have they?
The suggestion in the actual report:
http://www.ieep.eu/publications/pdfs/2007/IEEP%20-%20Unfit%20for%20purpose_transport%20climate%20chage%20and%20obesity.pdf
is to set up parking ‘exclusion zones’ near schools. This would likely, err, unexclude local residents, just as current parking exclusion zones do.
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