Step in Right Direction Towards Slimmer Waists

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If Everyone in Stoke-on-Trent vowed to walk just a few hundred more yards a day, doctors believe the city would soon start to shake off its tag as one of the UK's fattest cities.

But with illnesses linked with obesity - heart disease, diabetes, chest disease and strokes - running so far above the national average, experts say the Potteries needs to improve its population's health much quicker than elsewhere merely to stay in touch.

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Step in Right Direction Towards Slimmer Waists

That is why they see initiatives like the pedometers, pictured below, issued at Belgrave Medical Centre as so important.

They may be simple a...

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