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CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH-REVUE CANADIENNE DE SANTE PUBLIQUE
Volume 103, Issue 3, Pages 164-169Publisher
SPRINGER INT PUBL AG
DOI: 10.1007/BF03403806
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Obesity; overweight; motor activity; exercise; sedentary behaviour; policy
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This manuscript briefly reviews 15 significant initiatives related to childhood obesity and physical inactivity in Canada between September 2010 and September 2011. These include the: announcement of a Federal-Provincial-Territorial framework for action to promote healthy weights; implementation of the nutrition labeling initiative; launch of the CBC Live Right Now campaign; announcement of the Public Health Agency of Canada's innovation strategy funding related to obesity; publication of the Canadian Health Measures Survey physical activity findings; release of new Canadian physical activity and sedentary behaviour guidelines; launch of ParticipACTION's Think Again campaign; workshop on building trust to address the epidemic of obesity; start of the Canadian Pediatric Weight Management Registry; initiation of Our Health Our Future: A National Dialogue on Healthy Weights; release of the Active Healthy Kids Canada Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth; National Obesity Summit; Nature Play Day and Sports Day in Canada; development of the Canadian Assessment of Physical Literacy; and the creation of Active Canada 20/20 A National Physical Activity Plan. The diversity and intensity of activity addressing the childhood obesity and physical inactivity epidemic in Canada is encouraging and must be maintained and enhanced.
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