The building boom did nothing for our activity levels, so we need to get out there and redesign our environment, writes SYLVIA THOMPSON
MORE TEENAGE girls drive to school than cycle in Ireland. This shocking statistic was cited at a seminar in Dublin last week on finding ways to improve the built environment to encourage physical activity.
“We need to rethink what we’ve done to become modern and sophisticated because the environment we’ve built and the policies we have put in place have made us inactive,” said Prof James Sallis, director of the Active Living Research and professor of psychology at San Diego State University, California, who addressed the seminar.
