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Report highlights lack of active travel (Eoin Burke-Kennedy)

Half of all car journeys in the Greater Dublin Area involve trips of less than one mile, according to a report by Institute of Public Health in Ireland (IPH).

Changes to built environment 'may improve physical fitness' - irish Times

PAMELA DUNCAN

MAKING CHANGES to our built environment would help counter low levels of physical activity in Ireland, a seminar has heard.

More than 130 delegates attending a joint seminar by the Institute of Public Health in Ireland and the UKCRC Centre of Excellence for Public Health heard that low levels of physical activity are contributing to long-term health problems.

Teresa Lavin, Institute of Public Health in Ireland (IPH) said that enhancing opportunities for physical activity in the built environment was essential in influencing the public in carrying out physical exercise.

IHF says 5 years on, little done to tackle obesity

On European Obesity Day (May 22), the Irish Heart Foundation has criticised the lack of significant progress in tackling and treating obesity in Ireland since the launch of the National Taskforce on Obesity (NTFO) this month five years ago. 

Getting physical with the neighbourhood - Irish Times

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.

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