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Healthy ageing in urban and rural Britain
— a comparison of exercise and diet | | Author(s) | Kevin Morgan, Gillian K Armstrong, Felicia A Huppert |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 29, no 4, July 2000 |
| Pages | pp 341-348 |
| Keywords | Good Health ; Exercise ; Diet ; Comparison ; Rural areas ; East Cambridgeshire ; Urban areas ; Nottingham. |
| Annotation | Recent evidence linking reduced mortality to the daily consumption of fresh fruit and walking for more than 4 hours per week suggests that even modest urban-rural differences in life-style may have a profound impact on health and survival in later life. Participants in this MRC-CFAS Healthy Ageing Study comprised 1021 in rural Cambridgeshire (Ely area) and 1020 in Nottingham, sampled from general practitioner lists. Within these samples of healthy older people, those living in rural Cambridgeshire were significantly more likely to eat fresh fruit and green vegetables daily in both the summer and winter months. While overall levels of activity were similar for both groups, the structure of activities differed, with the urban sample reporting significantly greater time spent walking. Against current World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations for fruit and vegetable consumption, respondents in rural areas reported substantially "healthier" diet than their urban peers. On the other hand, urban older people may enjoy greater cardiovascular protection from greater time spent walking. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000824237 A |
| Classmark | CD: CEA: CFD: 48: RL: 8CD: RK: 8NTF |
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