Man misses final moments with grandad in Leicester hospice because of traffic
Loros and other charities set to benefit from 120-mile walk
Grandad Ken pictured with baby Rikki (Image: Liverpool Echo)
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A man who missed a chance to spend a final few moments with his grandfather at Leicester s LOROS hospice because of traffic congestion is to embark on a sponsored walk in his memory this summer.
AFTER dedicating the month of March to a ‘Walk All Over Cancer’ charity fundraiser, teams at West Downs Day Nursery in Winchester were delighted to exceed their targets and raise over £1,000 for Cancer Research UK. With the help of a special target meter window display, families and colleagues from the day nursery on Romsey Road monitored progress towards the goal of 5,200,000 steps over the month, which they exceeded with an final figure of 6,438,965 steps and £1,015 in donations. Other fundraising throughout March included an Easter sweepstake for colleagues, as well as a ‘guess how many eggs in jar’ competition for families, taking the total for the month to £1,517.47.
Beautiful tributes to special Rossendale people who died recently
Family members have left loving messages this week to relatives who have passed away
Pictures of those who have died in Rossendale recently
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Tributes have been left this week to remember loved ones in Rossendale who have recently passed away.
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COVID-19 has put renewed focus on obesity. As the New York Post recently reported, countries with high obesity rates such as the UK have nearly 90 percent of COVID-19 deaths, compared with countries that have less obesity such as Vietnam.
Medically, obese people are more likely to contract COVID-19, suffer greater morbidity, and are more likely to transmit the virus than non-obese people. But that’s only part of the story. COVID-19 has also
increased national obesity thanks to lockdowns and forced disruptions of normal life.
Pre-COVID in 2019, more than 40 percent of adults were obese in the United States according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Behavioral Risk Factors Surveillance System. A 2018 National Center for Health Statistics report (pdf) found the average weight of American men in 2015–2016 was 197.9 pounds and women 170.6, up from 172.2 pounds and 144.2, respectively, i