More than 600 dead after earthquake hits Afghanistan, officials say Authorities said that more than 1,500 people were injured by the 6.0-magnitude earthquake

Disappointing that the Government’s strategy for the #InactivityPandemic is to encourage people to go for a run (which people with busy lives will find hard to make time for) rather than building in ‘incidental exercise’ by making it easier to walk to the shops or school #ActiveTravel

This is why #LivableNeighbourhoods are so important - unless we give people the choice to embed activity into everyday living, we’re giving them no choice to be active at all.

#InactivityPandemic #TheMiraclePill

In pictures: Greggs rolls out Eco Drive-Thru to cut energy and waste - Retail Gazette Greggs has launched its first Eco Drive-Thru at Easton Lane, Winchester, testing new sustainability initiatives designed to reduce the environmental impact of its operations.

There is no such thing as an Eco #DriveThrough. They are generators of short distance car journeys (which we should be discouraging in a #ClimateCrisis and #InactivityPandemic) and have no place in urban areas @walkridegm.org.uk

And in recent news… #InactivityPandemic

Cycling one short journey a day enough to lower blood pressure, new research finds "Our findings suggest that, for most people, exercise is key," researchers concluded, with as little as five minutes of extra exercise enough to have a positive effect

#ActiveTravel has health benefits as well as cost and environmental ones - let’s build a network of safe infrastructure to help the health of the people of #Rochdale benefit #InactivityPandemic

This is of course one of the most disappointing parts of car-centric planning - makes it harder for people to walk or cycle to the corner shop, so they drive. And so the #InactivityPandemic continues, with resulting worse frailty in later life.