Healthy living - Walk it off

THERE is no shortage of advice about how we should live our lives. Experts tell us how to develop and sustain relationships. Others tell us, for a fee of course, how to lose weight.

They, rightly, warn of the dire consequences, physical and psychological, of obesity. However, a lot of this advice goes unheeded.

Poor exercise habits combined with inappropriate diets cost our health services €1.8 billion each year.