SIR – While we need a whole variety of responses to the city’s obesity crisis (T&A, February 5), we should not ignore one asset which comes free and is there in front of our noses. I refer to Bradford’s geography and its urban gradients.
I have huge respect for people who toil up Eccleshill Bank or Park Road or Bradford Road, Idle, carrying a couple of shopping bags as they head for a well-known supermarket at the top of the hill.
Sometimes they are quite elderly folk who sensibly pause for breath half-way up. I am struck by the number of people who walk down Bolton Road into the city centre – and often back up again! Across the city there are some who walk home from work up to Wibsey or Great Horton.
These people have no problem “raising their heartbeat for 30 minutes a month”. They should be celebrated and thanked for using the city’s terrain creatively and avoiding putting pressure on public health services.
Councillor Geoff Reid (Liberal Democrat, Eccleshill), Woodfield Close, Bradford
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