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Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:03:50 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time)
From: "Dave Gordon, School for Policy Studies" <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Public Health White paper: Top Tips for healthy Living
Dear all
Please find below the Chief Medical Officer of Health's ten top tips
for healthy living from the Public Health White paper (Saving Lives:
Our Healthier Nation) launched yesterday (see
http://www.official-documents.co.uk/document/cm43/4386/4386.htm). I
thought that we might be able to produce a rather better alternative
top ten tips. So please find below my suggestions for an alternative
top ten tips for health living. Has anybody got any better suggestions?
Best wishes
Dave Gordon
Saving Lives: Our Healthier Nation
(Public Health White Paper)
Liam Donaldson
Chief Medical Officer
Ten Tips For Better Health
1 Don't smoke. If you can, stop.
If you can't, cut down.
1) DON'T BE POOR. IF YOU CAN, STOP. IF YOU CAN'T TRY NOT TO BE POOR FOR
LONG
2 Follow a balanced diet with
plenty of fruit and vegetables.
2) DON'T HAVE POOR PARENTS
3 Keep physically active.
3) OWN A CAR
4 Manage stress by, for example,
talking things through and
making time to relax.
3) DON'T WORK IN A STRESSFUL, LOW PAID MANUAL JOB
5 If you drink alcohol, do so in moderation.
4) DON'T LIVE IN DAMP, LOW QUALITY HOUSING
6 Cover up in the sun, and protect
children from sunburn.
6) BE ABLE TO AFFFORD TO GO ON A FOREIGN HOLIDAY AND SUNBATHE
7 Practise safer sex.
7) PRACTICE NOT LOSING YOUR JOB AND DON'T BECOME UNEMPLOYED
8 Take up cancer screening opportunities.
8) TAKE UP ALL BENEFITS YOU ARE ENTITLED TO, IF YOU ARE UNEMPLOYED,
RETIRED OR SICK OR DISABLED.
9 Be safe on the roads: follow the
Highway Code.
9) DON'T LIVE NEXT TO A BUSY MAJOR ROAD OR NEAR A POLLUTING FACTORY
10 Learn the First Aid ABC - airways,
breathing, circulation.
10) LEARN HOW TO FILL IN THE COMPLEX HOUSING BENEFIT/ ASYLUM
APPLICATION FORMS BEFORE YOU BECOME HOMLESS AND DESTITUTE.
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Dave Gordon
Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research
University of Bristol
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Bristol BS8 1TZ, UK
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All children belong to society.
But obviously society will have to be changed
in order to make it treat its children better.
-Halldor Laxness "The Atom Station"
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Dennis Raphael, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Associate Director,
Masters of Health Science Program in Health Promotion
Department of Public Health Sciences
Graduate Department of Community Health
University of Toronto
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Toronto, Ontario, CANADA M5S 1A8
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