16.(k) Five Prerequisites to a successful Pilot and Research Programme

Background to agreeing the Five Prerequisites:

(i) contends that harvesting the Ten Sport Administration Attributes is warranted to treat Obesity and Type 2 diabetes, as it will cost-effectively -

* enable overweight GPs Patients progress through the Final Three Stages described in Lifescripts; and

* assist other Adult Enquirers,

to increase their Personal Health And Fitness; and

(ii) postulates the Hypothesis (limited to Interested Adults commencing one of 8 Rigorous Recreational Exercise Activities) will reduce the Seven Problems, one of which is Obesity/Type 2 diabetes.

Section 18 explains the need during the Pilot to forecast Economic Return on Capex from Propagating YELP to 20,000 additional Participants across Australia by end-2010.

Section 16.(j) reviews a 'Case Study' of 13 volunteer interested adults in Massachusetts USA with varying ailments (AIDS, Type 1 Diabetes, Depression, post-divorce trauma, Obesity and post-fatality trauma) who accepted a Challenging Invitation from a Team Of Clinicians And Sports Therapists Supported By An RTV Producer to tackle a rigorous recreational exercise activity, namely the 2007 Boston Marathon.

The post-Marathon report in Section 16.(j)(i) and the Testimonials from each of the 13 volunteers in Section 16.(j)(ii) attest to the diverse emotional and physical benefits due to the intervention of endurance jogging to achieve a Challenging goal. Paradoxically after providing a detailed explanation of VO2 Max and listing empirically evidence of the material improvements all 12 finishers achieved in their VO2 Max, Susan K. Lewis, Editor of NOVA On-line's final section, titled Power of positive thinking, of the Summary of "Fit to Go the Distance by Susan K. Lewis" leads us to muse how much of their improvement is -

1.) due to physical improvement measured in VO2 Max; and

2.) mental determination not to fail under a high RTV profile when all your new buddies (Common Bond Support Group) are putting in to their utmost.

Watching the video and reading the Marathon Diaries about the determination to train with their "team" in the Winter rain is testimony that 2) above is not immaterial.

Logically, encouraging Interested Adults to introduce a Rigorous Recreational Exercise Activity to Materially Alter Lifestyle to experience the emotional and physical benefits the 12 Boston Marathon 'Finishers' experienced is not a simple task because if it was Australia would not beset by escalating levels of Obesity and Diabetes 2.

Annexure C of the Business Plan acknowledges both NSW Department of Health and Federal Department of Health and Ageing's strategic plans to encourage a healthy lifestyle.

Annexure C(i)(a) asserts that relying on the Traditional Role of Government, Government is able to address the "risk factors" and "protective factors" noted in A New Direction for NSW Department of Health - STRATEGIC PLAN TOWARDS 2010by implementing "B." of Annexure C(i)(a), which does not require the collective "strong will and sustained action by (all of) individuals, families, communities and governments" and can be completed for a relative pittance due to -

i. substantive economies that e-Learning / e-Techniques enable; and

ii. the roll-out plan has been prepared by a seasoned sports administrator who has project finance infrastructure, financial modelling and I.T. skills.

Annexure C(ii) contend that the 'Principle of Comparative Advantage' supports GPs referring interested GP's Patients with any of Five Lifestyle Risk Factors For Chronic Disease to a Recreational Exercise Consultant to implement the below Final Three Stages of Lifescripts' Five Basic ‘Stages of Change’ because GP's don't have requisite time and most GP's don't have the Supervision skills - ipso facto it is not cost-effective for GPs to action the following 3 stages:

                     3.    Decide and prepare to make a change (determination/preparation)
                     4.    Implement genuine, determined action (action)
                     5.    Over time, attempts to maintain the new behaviour occur (maintenance).

What does reviewing the above earlier Sections in the Business Plan tell us?

It snapshots the merit of conducting a successful 12 months Pilot, including 9 months Research Programme, because Capex to improve the productivity of Human Brownfield Infrastructure will be cost-effective. The Boston Marathon highly successful precedent, as encapsulated at "Power of positive thinking", highlights the need to bundle together 5 inter-dependant Prerequisites to ensure a successful Pilot and Business Plan:

1. Interested Parties execute the Interested Parties Agreed Business Plan, thereby agreeing the Head Consultant's Conditions Precedent To The Pilot.

2. Financial support from NHMRC and NSW Health Department to met the Budget for 12 months Pilot in NSW, including 9 months Research Programme.

3. Selecting the Pilot Delivery Team

4. Developing the Media and Networking Campaign to Promote the Pilot and Research Programme

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