2016 ParticipACTION Report Card
Canadian kids are inactive and may be losing sleep over it
ParticipACTION releases 2016 Report Card and for the first time, assigns a sleep grade.
There are important relationships among sleep, physical activity and sedentary behaviour and new research shows that sedentary lifestyles are connected to a creeping ‘sleepidemic’ in Canadian children and youth. That is why, for the first time, the 2016 ParticipACTION Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth assigns a grade to sleep and includes new Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for Children and Youth. A first of their kind in the world, the guidelines outline what a healthy 24-hour period looks like for children and youth.
Obese Children Do Not Need to Increase Their Physical Activity Any More than Their Lean Counterparts Do
Traversy Gregory Peter, Chaput Jean-Philippe. Obese Children Do Not Need to Increase Their Physical Activity Any More than Their Lean Counterparts Do. Frontiers in Pediatrics 2016: http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fped.2016.00035. Via the Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group, CHEO Research Institute IntroductionThe relationship between child physical activity (PA) levels and obesity has been studied extensively (1, 2). […]
60 Minute Kids’ Club Amalgamates with Sport for Life Society
The Sport for Life Society is excited to announce that the organization amalgamated the operations of 60 Minutes Kids’ Club into its suite of programs and services
The Sport for Life Society is recognized as the international experts on the Sport for Life movement, Long-Term Athlete Development, and physical literacy development. 60 Minute Kids Club is a program that has helped more than 78,000 elementary students from over 400 schools across Canada learn healthy habits over the past six years.
Yummy Lunch Club 4 Kids: New kids’ e-mag
To read the issue: http://www.joomag.com/magazine/mag/0130408001457374536Yummy Lunch Club: http://www.yummylunchclub.ca
60 Minute Kids’ Club and Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame announce partnership
60 Minute Kids’ Club and Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame partner for greater physical literacy levels and participation in sports of Canadian kids
Vancouver, BC – 60 Minute Kids’ Club and Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame are pleased to announce their partnership to support greater physical literacy levels and sports participation of Canadian children.
The partners have rallied around their core competencies and a common purpose: to help kids become physically literate, with the skills that enable participation in sports from an early age and throughout their lives. Such skill development has fallen off significantly over the past decades. 60MKC and Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame have come together to ensure Canadians are supported in reaching physical literacy by focusing on children and youth.
Video: Fixing the childhood obesity epidemic
Matt Young at TEDxStanleyPark
The 60 Minute Kids’ Club is a free program that supports elementary schools physical literacy and health strategies. Visit http://fms.60mkc.org to start monitoring, recording and supporting the week-by-week, year-by-year development of your kids’ Fundamental Movement Skills, helping set them up for a lifetime of movement, experience and health.
Parents Canada magazine: 60 Minute Kids’ Club co-founder Matt Young on childhood obesity and inactivity
Matt Young, co-founder of 60 Minute Kids’ Club, wrote an article on childhood obesity and inactivity for Parents Canada magazine. Childhood obesity and inactivity A great deal of time, money and energy has been invested in discussing what it will take to raise the bar on our children’s health and physical activity. As childhood obesity […]
September 2014 Network Update
Updates from the 60 Minute Kids’ Club, Active at School, Canadian Obesity Network (CON-RCO) and CYCC.
Calling all health care practitioners with an interest in paediatric healthcare
Researchers at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital and University of Toronto are looking for input from health care practitioners through a short, anonymous online survey to share your feedback and opinion on the development of a new health screening tool for children: The Healthy Body Scorecard. It aims to address some of the limitations associated […]
The Sandbox Project’s Letter to Honourable Deb Matthews
The Sandbox Project’s Growing Healthy Bodies Working Group responds to the No Time to Wait: The Healthy Kids Strategy
Dear Honorable Minister,
On behalf of The Sandbox Project, we would first like to commend you on forming the Ontario Healthy Kids Panel to address a very important issue to all Canadians including Ontario: kid’s health. As a national child and youth health charity we are encouraged that you have made this a priority to invest in the health of children as they truly are our future. While this report is a valuable resource that identified the status of Ontario children’s health, there are some issues that have been identified by our Growing Healthy Bodies Working Group experts that we would like to bring to your attention.
