Amsterdam tackles child obesity
Meet Tyrell. A typical nine-year-old, but struggling with weight - caught up in the global childhood obesity crisis. With one in five of its children overweight , Amsterdam is determined to help kids like Tyrell.
Janice Van Der Wees, Tyrell’s mother
He won’t feel fit - and your condition has to be OK. So I’ve tried to make him aware already: just think about your health.
The Amsterdam initiative means every child is put through their paces. Weighed, but also tested for strength, endurance and balance to see who needs help.
For Tyrell, that means regular home visits from dieticians advising on healthy eating, and then there's the gym. Free sessions twice a week with other children on the programme. They're having fun, getting fit and crucially, losing pounds.
The Amsterdam mission is to educate kids and their parents to the benefits of exercise, the dangers of unhealthy food.
The children of Amsterdam are on the move, on the ice, burning calories. It’s free entry here and in other city sports facilities. Exercise, helping to force obesity rates down.
In Amsterdam it’s all about the children – lessons here perhaps for other cities hoping to build a better, leaner future.
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'Online' bees
Behind a fire station in Stockport (UK), some bees are about to get connected. An Australian scientist, leading a global bee monitoring project, is fitting them with a chip that will allow them to be tracked . Now the bees will be counted in and out of the hive.
Peter Carter, bee project manager
"So now we understand more about their behaviour – when they leave the hive, how long they stay away and when they return, who they are travelling with. We are identifying individual insects here which we have not been able to do in the past."
The tech company Cisco has recruited beekeepers across Greater Manchester to take part in the programme. One hope is that the data will give greater understanding of what keeps bees healthy.
Alan Towse, bee keeper
"It's very, very difficult to look inside the hive and know what's happening with an individual bee, so by tagging an individual bee you get to know how long it lives."
Over the coming months thousands of them will be at work, not just making honey but providing data which could make Manchester a healthier and smarter city.
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