The Department of Health's new computer `supersite' aims to cut the number of unnecessary deaths in 70 areas in the country, including most parts of Greater Manchester.
Ministers were alarmed to find that in a recent three-year period Manchester had the lowest life expectancy for men in the country.
The government say that although people are living longer the gap between residents of these `spearhead' areas and that of the population as a whole continues to widen.
The average life expectancy in England is 76.9 years for men and 81.1 years for women, but in these 70 areas it is lower. The life expectancy for Manchester was 72.5 years for men - compared with 82.2 in Kensington and Chelsea in London. Now the Department of Health has set up a special website which aims to reduce the number of deaths in some of these northern areas.
The site will try to understand why people are dying earlier and concentrate on persuading people to stop smoking, reducing infant deaths and prescribing treatment for people with high blood pressure.
Other authorities seen as having serious health problems include Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Tameside and Wigan. Tweet
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Try educating people that eating fresh food each day isnt expensive and eating fruit each day also helps.but the real boost to peoples health would be to educate people to cook ?i just wonder how many youngsters know how to cook a meal.my youngest daughter when she was 14years old put some potatoes on the cooker without water and when they burned she said that she didnt know they needed water? .my wife is a great cook but the school where my daughter went to didnt teach them anything about food or cooking.
Young lads as well could heed that advice.Good cooking is dead simple,and more kids should be taught the basics,you can make great food cheaply.Pot noodles were invented by the devil.Unfortunately the areas where the poorest people live tend to lack outlets that sell good quality healthy food..though bookmakers seem to thrive like vampires at a bloodbank.
Ace,
As your wife is a great cook I am very surprised that she did not teach your daughter anything, why should you rely on everything being done by the school.
bluepolarbear, i agree about the bookies thriving in poor areas. lots of those nasty Money Shop outlets too. however, decent and healthy food is available in poor areas. asda has a great fresh fruit and veg section (god, i sound like an advert) and there are stores in longsight, beswick, harpurhey and hulme - all poor areas. there are also many local grocers in these areas. i just think people prefer pot noodles because it takes no effort whatsoever.