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Children Four and Under Should Move More, Sit Less and Avoid Screens
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Posted in Featured Articles, Guidelines on 27 March 2012
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Click here to read the French release.
TORONTO (ONTARIO) March 27, 2012 – Children aged four and under should move more and sit less every day as recommended by the first-ever Canadian Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour Guidelines for the Early Years. All children aged one to four should accumulate… [read more]

Cutting Down on Sitting Down: The World’s First Evidence-Based Sedentary Behaviour Guidelines Released
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Posted in Guidelines on 15 February 2011
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TORONTO (ONTARIO) FEBRUARY 15, 2011 – The Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology’s (CSEP) Canadian Sedentary Behaviour Guidelines for Children and Youth are the first, systematic evidence-based sedentary behaviour guidelines in the world. The Canadian Sedentary Behaviour Guidelines provide recommendations to Canadian children and youth on limiting sedentary behaviour during discretionary… [read more]

New Physical Activity Guidelines For Canadians Just Released
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Posted in Guidelines on 24 January 2011
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New physical activity guidelines for Canadians have just been released by the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology. To read the guidelines and related information, click here.… [read more]

New Physical Activity Guidelines for Canadians
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Posted in Guidelines on 9 September 2010
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Allana LeBlanc and Dr. Mark Tremblay, together with the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology (CSEP) and ParticipACTION, led a national workshop in Toronto to craft new Physical Activity Guidelines for Canadians based on comprehensive new research completed by CSEP and its members. Watch for their public release in January!… [read more]