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Category Archives: Research

Changing Things Up-Canada’s New Physical Activity Guidelines

posted by: Kenji category: Awareness, Education, Healthy Living, Physical Activity Guidelines, Physical Inactivity, Research

When I heard there were going to be new physical activity guidelines for Canada my first question was, why? Turns out the old guidelines were simply outdated. The new guidelines were developed because of all the new research that has been conducted recently. This new research allowed the scientists to make more specific recommendations about physical [...]

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Canada Gets an F for Physical Activity -2010 Active Healthy Kids Canada Report Card

posted by: Kenji category: Accountability, Advocacy, Physical Inactivity, Research

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?

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