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Article: A healthy life in the workplace
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- Belfast Telegraph
- Article date:
- November 13, 2009
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Physical activity and health experts from the University of
Ulster have been promoting healthy living in the workplace by
testing MLAs at Stormont.
Five Assembly Members -- Jim Wells (DUP South Down), Carmel Hanna
(SDLP South Belfast), Michelle O'Neill (Sinn Fein Mid-Ulster), John
McAlister (UUP South Down), and Sam Gardiner (UUP Upper Bann) --
took part in a three-day test to see how physically active they are.
Each MLA was given an activity monitor called an Actigraph, which
monitors their activity and rest periods. This can then be analysed
to reveal the amount and intensity of activity and inactivity of an
individual.
Professor Marie Murphy, Head of the University's School of Sport ...