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Will the Olympics Leave a Legacy of Good Health? The Olympic leg
Will the Olympics Leave a Legacy of Good Health? The Olympic leg
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Will the Olympics Leave a Legacy of Good Health?
The Olympic legacy(传承)has promised to create a "healthier, happier, more active nation" , so it’s ironic that I spent more time in the last fortnight sitting glued to the TV than ever before. But not, perhaps, as ironic as the government’s failure thus far to capitalise on the current wave of enthusiasm for sport with a strategy for promoting physical activity.
A report just published by the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee entitled " Sport and exercise science and medicine: building on the Olympic legacy to improve the nation’s health" expresses surprise and disappointment in " the apparent lack of joined-up thinking in government about the Olympic health legacy".
" While ’ sport’ belongs to the Department of Culture Media and Sport, ’ exercise or physical activity’ is seen as being within the remit(豁免)of the Department of Health," says David Stalker, CEO of the Fitness Industry Association(FIA). Hugh Robertson, the minister for sport, openly declared that his interest was in increasing participation rather than improving the nation’s health, leading Lord Krebs, the chairman of the committee, to state: " Government is failing to act in a consistent way to ensure that the Olympics help us tackle one of our greatest health threats—sedentary lifestyles. "
If you are in any doubt about the magnitude of the problem, consider the findings of a study published last month in the Lancet that concluded physical inactivity was responsible for 6-10% of cases of heart disease, type 2 diabetes(糖尿病), and breast cancer globally—and 9% of premature deaths. This, the authors suggest, makes a sedentary lifestyle as serious a threat to health and longevity as smoking.
So why, given the compelling evidence of a clear dose-response relationship between physical activity and disease, have we failed to recognise and promote the role of physical activity both in the prevention and treatment of chronic disease?
One possible reason, believes sports and exercise medicine consultant Dr. Richard Weiler, is the lack of emphasis on physical activity and its benefits in British medical schools, Weiler’s research, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine this month, found that 44% of medical schools did not teach trainee doctors the national exercise guidelines, and that on average a paltry(微不足道的)4.2 hours was devoted to education on physical activity.
"There is an urgent need for physical activity teaching to have dedicated time at medical schools, to equip tomorrow’s doctors with the basic knowledge, confidence and skills to promote physical activity," says Weiler.
The Lords committee identified lack of awareness and inadequate training among health professionals as a key barrier preventing the treatment of ill health by exercise, as well as a lack of confidence in exercise referral schemes.
But Stalker says change is around the corner. "The Royal College of Physicians called for the development of clear standards outlining the process by which a doctor can refer a patient to an exercise programme," he explains. " This work is underway, led by a joint consultative forum between the medical profession and exercise sector and represents the first time these sectors have worked together. "
Dr. Andrew Murray, the recently appointed " physical activity champion" for the Scottish government, says steps are already being taken in Scotland. " They’ve really grasped the importance of this issue up here," he says. Murray is working closely with Scotland’s chief medical officer to promote physical activity with the aims of increasing life expectancy and decreasing the incidence of chronic disease.
How? A ministerial debate on obesity and physical activity held in the Scottish parliament in May led to pledges from Shona Robison, minister for Commonwealth Games and sport, to maintain the physical activity budget of 3. 3m for the next three years, to make 6m available to local authorities to help them achieve the " two hours of PE per week" target, and to increase funding for sustainable transport initiatives including walking and cycling. Meanwhile, NHS Scotland has just released a series of free online educational tools for its staff to learn how best to talk over the subject of physical activity and motivate and support people to get active.
This was one of the recommendations made by the Lords report, along with support for appropriate training both at undergraduate level and in continuing professional development of health professionals, in prescribing exercise as a preventative measure and treatment for chronic diseases.
The committee also recommended that the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence(Nice)assesses the research on the use of exercise in the management of chronic diseases and, where the evidence supports it, update their guidelines to reflect these findings. This could lead to a scenario where a GP assesses a patient and decides the most appropriate treatment for their high blood pressure is physical activity rather than drugs.
While it is encouraging to see a more committed attitude to physical activity from the government, Dr. Weiler stresses the importance of a coordinated approach. " We need the same type of strategy that was used for stopping smoking," he says. That campaign went far beyond telling people smoking was bad for them: it also entailed supporting their efforts to stop on a practical level and using legislation to make not smoking easier than smoking.
" One of the problems is that our environment is not designed to encourage physical activity," says Weiler. In offices, shopping centres and other public buildings, lifts and escalators(自动扶梯)take centre stage, with dark and dirty staircases round the back—out of sight and out of mind. Yet the Lancet study found that campaigns using motivational signs, such as those directing people to stairs instead of lifts, were among the most successful. Exactly this type of signage has been used in London throughout the Olympics—presumably as much to ease the strain on the city’s public transport system as to boost the nation’s health—but all the same, I’d like to see it remain.
Fred Turok, the FIA’s chairman, chairs the government’s Responsibility Deal physical activity network, which works to encourage businesses to promote physical activity among employees— emphasising the knock-on effect that a healthier workforce has on productivity and profitability. " It’s not just about gyms at the office," he says. " It’s about enabling employees to be more active: providing showers, prioritising stairs over lifts or promoting active commuting—walking, running or cycling to work. "
Even though the government is finally acknowledging what the fitness industry has been saying for decades—that physical activity matters—it’s not yet clear whether the sofa-bound British public will buy into it this time around. Stalker is optimistic. " I think the reaction we have seen to this summer’s Olympic Games have driven people towards the realisation that they cannot put off getting active any longer," he says.
Weiler agrees. " We can’t carry on doing nothing about it. The cost of doing so will far outweigh the investment required to increase physical activity levels and prevent this public health crisis. " [br] Lord Krebs argues that the government should take advantage of Olympics to______.
选项
A、increase ordinary people’s participation in sports activities
B、improve sports facilities in cities as well as in countryside
C、prove the negative effects of physical inactivity
D、deal with our unhealthy sedentary lifestyles
答案
D
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