General Discussion

This week is 'Get Walking Week' so if you don't do it already GO FOR A WALK!!  If you're in Newton Abbot any time try the brand new cycle/walking route which has opened today from the Town Quay to Kingsteignton, with an absolutely fantastically designed footbridge across the river.  Join a walking group like 'Walk This Way' in Dawlish which meets every week for walks of varying lengths depending on ability.

To quote from today's Independent:

“One small step... Inactivity is world's fourth-biggest killer.”  A quarter of British adults now walk for less than nine minutes a day – including time spent getting to the car, work and the shops. The figures, from a YouGov poll for the Ramblers, published exclusively in The Independent on Sunday, reveal that a quarter of Britons walk on average for less than an hour every week.  William Bird, a GP who specialises in the benefits of exercise, said: "We're going to find this generation will die earlier than their parents if they don't start doing basic movement. We all age quicker when we're not moving and the consequences of that are age-related diseases, such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer."  Two-thirds of adults in the UK are not doing enough physical activity for good health and the World Health Organisation now ranks physical inactivity as the fourth-biggest killer in the world – ahead of obesity and just behind high blood pressure, tobacco and high blood glucose.