Go for Your Life (fitness program)

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Go For Your Life [1] is a program set up by the Victorian Government to promote fitness and healthy eating. It is aimed at Victorians of all ages. Their advertisements have now become well known.

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  1. "Go for your life". Victorian Government. Archived from the original on 7 November 2007. Retrieved 15 November 2007.