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Published On: Tue, Oct 11th, 2016

Awareness

We hear a lot about awareness these days but how many people are really walking the talk? Like many other communities, St. Maarten is rife with citizens suffering from obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure. Talk is cheap and action is often lacking.

We move around mostly in cars and spend our days playing with our smart phones and surfing the internet. Everything is accessible with the click of a button, but in the meantime many of us forget that it is important to stay active – or face the consequences.

The French side has taken a remarkable initiative with the construction of three fitness trails. It is an old idea that surfaced in the Netherlands already back in the seventies, when the government made an attempt to get its underlings off the couch.

The fitness trails on the French side put words into action and on this side of the border picking up on this concept may well be worth our time.