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As part of the BBC's Fat Nation campaign, we've compiled some key facts about getting fit and taking exercise for disabled people - with everything from top tips from disabled sportspeople, to calculating the equivalent of 10,000 steps if you're a wheelchair user, to dieting for coeliacs.

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1. At 4:47pm on 08 Jan 2009, shaunpilkington wrote:
Be like me - get MS then get a dog that will ensure you have to twitch and spasm your way around the streets come rain or shine. The weight falls off, I can tell you!

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2. At 7:12pm on 19 Oct 2009, callitnotlove wrote:
maybe I missed it, but there seems little suggestion around, for non athletes, other than shakespeares physio saying roll across the floor

hydrotherapy pools, passive exercise machines etc are what is needed when all joints are arthritic, for example, or all muscle gone.

These disability sports fans are not helping to militate for such provision, they harm our cause. We want public service providers to remember their obligations under disbility equality duty.

We could do without the semi-gray-thompsons distracting from our needs by giving the impression disabled people can could or should just ape traditional sportsmen and athletes. Prof Hawkins cannot, nor can your arthritic mum on a zimmer frame

Those damnable government officials with exhortations to the general public to "take a brisk daily walk" are hurtful, as well as non DED compliant. Best thing they could do is follow their own advice, briskly, off the end of a pier.

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