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The "Active Program" continues to add users to their free activities in municipal facilities Cotillas Towers, a proposal whose "goal is to promote physical activity and healthy lifestyle," says local Councillor for Sports, Ginés Pérez Iniesta who notes that "is a program that relies heavily on medical prescription of exercise as if it were a drug that seeks to promote physical activity from coordination between physicians and primary care nurses and the City."

So is pretending concretely reduce the obesity rate, reduce mortality from ischemic heart disease or improve the quality of life of people suffering high blood pressure or diabetes, among other diseases.

So, classes have started two new groups: one in the new City Hall on Wednesdays from 10.30 to 11.30 hours and another in IES n ° 2 of The Florida 19.30 to 20.30 hours.

Progressive improvement

Activities in the "Active Program" is performed in the presence of a monitor in approximately ten week period and about 30 sessions for participants to "gradually" improve their fitness and learn exercises and activities that can make autonomously.

Over a hundred people have already enjoyed this program "are renewed its participants," explains Pérez Iniesta-taking place in 15 other municipalities in the region

This program is part of the Regional Health Plan 2010-2015, launched by the local municipality and the Ministry of Health through the Foundation for Training and Health Research in the Region of Murcia (FFIS) - in the Torreño.

Health indicators of the Region of Murcia show your desalud level is below the Spanish average and is one of the regions of Spain with the highest rate of obesity.

This disease is considered one of the plagues of the XXI century Cotillas Towers not far behind the average for the Region of Murcia, with the obesity rate of 25% for men and 28% women (the College Pharmacists, 2010).

"The latest research argue that regular physical exercise can increase up to ten years life expectancy and reduce by 50% the likelihood of developing chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes or cardiovascular problems," the mayor Torreño Sports.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Las Torres de Cotillas