The Today Programme has been running a story this morning about 100 Northern Ireland civil servants who took part in a controlled experiment to see what would happen if they followed the Government's recommendation of 'a brisk thirty minute walk five times a week.'
Actually, one group only walked for thirty minutes three times a week AND they broke up the thirty minutes; they might have been walking for ten minutes three times in the same day, for example.
Apparently their collective blood pressure dropped over the length of the experiment* and they witnessed noticeable reductions in their waist and hip measurements.
The sad thing is that when polled, a considerable number of Brits said that they didn't have time in their normal day for this minimal amount of exercise.
Sadder still, until recently I didn't seem to have enough time in my normal day and I saw the results in weight gain.
Saddest of all: the Today Programme are running the story on a day in which England is enjoying 'unseasonally wet weather' so the chances of me walking to work are nil.
Ho hum. At least I'm playing squash three times a week!
*I can't find the story on the web, so I'm unable to check how long the experiment was running.
Posted by dompannell at August 14, 2007 7:52 AM