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0 Recently Active Healthy Kids Canada released the 2010 National Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth. For the fourth year running as a nation we receive an F for Physical Activity. The Saskatchewan specific page doesn’t look much better. As a province we’re sitting at 13% of kids getting their 90 minutes/day of physical activity.
Does that sit well with you?
It’s Earth Day today, which is awesome. Any opportunity to turn the world’s attention to the intensifying situation on our planet is good. I personally see being an “environmentalist” and physically active as two intertwined things. So on Earth Day when the focus is so vast and overwhelming, and you’re just looking for some way to participate on a smaller scale here is an idea for you.
If you’ve been reading the blog you’ll know that recently Saskatchewan in motion ran a contest for Saskatchewan’s youth. Part of the contest was the opportunity for Saskatchewan’s youth to submit a blog and win a chance to be featured here on Generation Action as a guest blogger. Ogema’s own Katie Bacon was selected by the staff here at basecamp as our winner! So here is a little about Katie and her thoughts on the physical inactivity crisis, enjoy.
I’m convinced that if you looked hard enough you could find “a day” for everyday of the year. There are the classics like Canada Day, St. Patrick’s Day, and some fascinating others that pop up year after year. Today however, is World Health Day. I’ve done some investigation to educate myself and sum it up for you. For what it’s worth, I’m on board with this day.
Today is a huge day for me. Recently I made a decision that will massively affect my whole life. It’s scary and intimidating for sure. At the same time it’s exciting, bold and in great ways life altering.
Here’s the deal; I decided to buy a bike and adopt it as my main means of transportation. If you’re thinking whoa that’s a pretty big thing to take on.. you’re right!
Today was day 1, and the benefits of choosing active transportation are clear…
My name is Kenji and I work with Saskatchewan in motion, where our goal is to help make Saskatchewan one of Canada's most active provinces! [read more]
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