LEGAZPI CITY, June 18 (PIA) -- Legazpi Boulevard has the perfect ambiance for physical fitness activities that the health department is promoting under its recently launched “Pilipinas Go4Health” movement.
The city government here has developed the Legazpi Boulevard, a 5-kilometer stretch of wide concrete road traversing the coastline of barangays Dapdap and Puro, two years ago and is now serving as a favorite place for walking, jogging and biking.
Mayor Geraldine Rosal said the area has opened more rooms for the city’s burgeoning metropolitan movements brought about by the unprecedented influx of investments.
Well-lighted at night, clean, easily accessible, secure and free of air pollution, “this boulevard is a good response to the call of Go4Health on Filipinos to indulge in four habits that affect one’s health, one of them physical activity,” she noted.
Pilipinas Go4Health is a nationwide healthy lifestyle movement that aims to inform and encourage Filipinos from all walks of life to practice a healthy lifestyle by making a personal commitment to physical activity, proper nutrition and the prevention or cessation of smoking and alcohol consumption.
Through the movement, DOH and its partners work together to promote and establish a sustainable environment for healthy living.
The movement focuses four key areas: Go Sigla, which encourages physical activity; Go Sustansya for proper nutrition; Go Smoke-Free and Go Slow sa Tagay for the prevention or cessation of smoking and harmful use of alcohol, respectively.
This is part of the government's comprehensive projects for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) that include heart diseases, cancers, respiratory diseases and diabetes that kill more than 36 million people in the world annually.
In Bicol region, 3,887 people died from heart disease, 2,357 from hypertension and 757 from diabetes in 2011, based on a study conducted by DOH.
Heart disease and hypertension, together with pneumonia, are listed as the top three killer diseases in the region.
These NCDs develop mainly because of lack of exercise, improper diet, and immoderate drinking and smoking.
Thus, Rosal enjoins Legazpeños and visitors to make use of the Legazpi Boulevard in their physical exercises.
"While letting their eyes feast on its picturesque location back-dropped by the panoramic view of Mt. Mayon or cooling themselves on the fresh air blowing from Albay Gulf, everyone can freely do biking, jogging, running, walking or any other form of physical exercise at the boulevard," Rosal said.
According to the DOH, the human body is designed for motion and one of the keys to good health is regular exercise.
Rosal said the city government strictly implements an ordinance that bans smoking in public places, including government offices and their premises, parks, malls, public markets, restaurants and pub houses, hospital, church and school grounds and public conveyances.
The successful implementation of the ordinance four years ago has placed the city government in the hall of fame of the DOH’s Red Orchid Awards for winning in three consecutive years from 2010 to 2012.
Said award is annually given by DOH to local government units and other institutions that are successful in their campaigns to rid their respective communities of cigarette smoking.(MAL/Danny O. Calleja, LGU Legazpi City/PIA5)
The city government here has developed the Legazpi Boulevard, a 5-kilometer stretch of wide concrete road traversing the coastline of barangays Dapdap and Puro, two years ago and is now serving as a favorite place for walking, jogging and biking.
Mayor Geraldine Rosal said the area has opened more rooms for the city’s burgeoning metropolitan movements brought about by the unprecedented influx of investments.
Well-lighted at night, clean, easily accessible, secure and free of air pollution, “this boulevard is a good response to the call of Go4Health on Filipinos to indulge in four habits that affect one’s health, one of them physical activity,” she noted.
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| Legazpi City Boulevard at night (Photo from http://wowlegazpi.com/legazpi-boulevard/) |
Through the movement, DOH and its partners work together to promote and establish a sustainable environment for healthy living.
The movement focuses four key areas: Go Sigla, which encourages physical activity; Go Sustansya for proper nutrition; Go Smoke-Free and Go Slow sa Tagay for the prevention or cessation of smoking and harmful use of alcohol, respectively.
This is part of the government's comprehensive projects for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) that include heart diseases, cancers, respiratory diseases and diabetes that kill more than 36 million people in the world annually.
In Bicol region, 3,887 people died from heart disease, 2,357 from hypertension and 757 from diabetes in 2011, based on a study conducted by DOH.
Heart disease and hypertension, together with pneumonia, are listed as the top three killer diseases in the region.
These NCDs develop mainly because of lack of exercise, improper diet, and immoderate drinking and smoking.
Thus, Rosal enjoins Legazpeños and visitors to make use of the Legazpi Boulevard in their physical exercises.
"While letting their eyes feast on its picturesque location back-dropped by the panoramic view of Mt. Mayon or cooling themselves on the fresh air blowing from Albay Gulf, everyone can freely do biking, jogging, running, walking or any other form of physical exercise at the boulevard," Rosal said.
According to the DOH, the human body is designed for motion and one of the keys to good health is regular exercise.
Rosal said the city government strictly implements an ordinance that bans smoking in public places, including government offices and their premises, parks, malls, public markets, restaurants and pub houses, hospital, church and school grounds and public conveyances.
The successful implementation of the ordinance four years ago has placed the city government in the hall of fame of the DOH’s Red Orchid Awards for winning in three consecutive years from 2010 to 2012.
Said award is annually given by DOH to local government units and other institutions that are successful in their campaigns to rid their respective communities of cigarette smoking.(MAL/Danny O. Calleja, LGU Legazpi City/PIA5)
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