HEALTH

GOING to watch a golf tournament will help boost your health, research reveals.

The majority of golf fans walk more than 10,000 steps while spectators at a tournament, a new study shows.

Fans at the Paul Lawrie Match Play event at Archerfield Links, East Lothian, averaged about 11,500 steps per day, researchers found.

The NHS has challenged people to walk 10,000 steps a day and many fitness trackers set that number as a target.

Researcher Andrew Murray, of Edinburgh University, said: “Walking is one of the best things you can do for your health, adding years to life and increasing health and happiness.

“These pilot findings show that golf spectators can gain physical activity which could benefit their health – while watching top-quality sport.”

The study was published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

BABIES born from this month can get a “six-in-one” vaccine to protect their health. Previously, tots were offered a five-in-one jab which protects against diphtheria, polio, tetanus, whooping cough and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib).

Now Public Health England says that all babies born in August or after will be offered the Hexavalent injection, which protects against the five childhood diseases as well as offering immunity against hepatitis B.

The vaccine is given three times as part of the childhood immunisation programme, at eight weeks, 12 weeks and 16 weeks old.

FIDGETING could help you lose weight.

Office workers given a device that encouraged them to move their legs used up 20% more calories, according to a study in the journal Frontiers of Psychology.

Despite being small, the constant muscle contractions burn up extra calories, researchers at the University of Calgary, Canada, and the Mayo Clinic in the US found.

ANDREW GREGORY is the Mirror’s Health Editor