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http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/canada-...port-1.1829421

This is the 10th year the report card has revealed low grades for Canadian children and youth, but it is also the first year Active Healthy Kids Canada has put the marks in a global perspective. In an effort to determine what works and what doesn’t, the report compared the results of 14 different countries from around the world.

The report also attributes Canada’s low grade to the “culture of convenience.”
A survey shows that 62 per cent of parents said their kids ages 5-11 are always driven to and from school, whether by car, bus, or other forms of non-active transportation. This same age group will spend an average of 7.6 hours sedentary.
While Canada does place well in organized sport participation, it isn’t enough to offset the hours of sitting children do at home and at school. Less children are walking, biking, or running to school, and instead just go from one sedentary environment to the next.

This really is on parents.



http://www.activehealthykids.ca/Repo...eportCard.aspx