With February comes everyone’s favourite celebration or perhaps it should be. You guessed it. February is Heart month.
If you’ve never taken the time to consider the rates of obesity and the increasing obesity in children, maybe this is the month. From 1979, 3% of Canadian youth aged 2 to 17 were obese. By 2004 that number ballooned to 8% - an estimated 500,000 obese! An additional 18% of Canadian children and youth are considered overweight. These stats together result in more than 26% (1/3) of Canadian children being either overweight or obese. (more…)
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