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IMPROVE YOUR HEALTH
06 MARCH 2006

From the WMDC Press and Communications Office

Eating well and getting fit will be highlighted at special drop-in awareness sessions being organised at Wakefield district libraries.

Visitors to the libraries can learn more about the link between being overweight and the risk of diabetes and how this can be avoided with a healthy diet and more exercise.

The sessions will offer blood pressure and waist size checks, along with information on healthy diets and exercise and useful web pages and books. 

Library staff, the Eastern Wakefield and Wakefield West's Primary Care Trusts, Wakefield Council's Healthy Transport and Five-a-Day teams are working together on the initiative.

Denise Jeffery, Cabinet member for Culture, Tourism and Sport, said: "According to most dieticians, there are no unhealthy foods, only unhealthy diets. We hope that as many people as possible will come along to the sessions."

Drop-in awareness sessions are at Drury Lane Library, Wakefield, on Tuesday March 14 from 2pm to 4pm and at Normanton Library, Thursday March 16 from 2pm-4pm.

Ref: PR736
Date: 06/03/06

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