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How Canada Performs 2011-Lifestyle and Health - YouTube: This video excludes the focus of Canada as an international player in world health, and focuses just within Canada. We see how diabetes and...

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Grand Challenges Canada: Canadian Rising Stars in Global Health - Sample Submission Video.wmv - YouTube: My question was really focused on the negatives of obesity in Canada, but we have to look a...

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Overweight and obese adults (self-reported), 2010 - 0 views

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canada overweight rates

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  • In successively older age groups from 18 to 64, the percentage of Canadians with a normal weight declined significantly (Chart 3), and the percentage in the combined overweight-obese category increased significantly.
  • When those who were overweight were included, 60.9% of Canadian men and 43.7% of women had an increased health risk because of excess weight.
  • In 2010, 18.1% of Canadians aged 18 and older, roughly 4.5 million adults, reported height and weight that classified them as obese, virtually unchanged from 2009. However, from 2003 to 2010, obesity among men rose from 16.0% to 19.8%, and among women, from14.5% to 16.5% (Chart 1).
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      Aninder S on 03 Dec 11
       
      It's terrifying seeing the obesity rates rise in Canada. This shows you the increase in packaged, processed, and preserved foods that we consume everyday. What this article doesn't do however is compare Canada to other countries and realize that degree of seriousness about obese people. 
  • Aninder S on 03 Dec 11
     
    http://www.torontosun.com/life/healthandfitness/2011/03/02/17464181.html Here's another link that shows that increase of obesity rates over the years.
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Dr.Silver Canada Health Provider

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  • Aninder S on 06 Jan 12
     
    Canada may be seeing a rise in health concerns, but we are far better off than many other countries. Yes, we are not a perfect country and do have health issues across the nation, but we are still very capable of providing health care for almost all Canadians. As leaders it is our responsibility to help other developing nations like India, to improve on their health systems, and be role models. We do our best to help around the world through Canada's International Assistance at Work programme, that has helped many people in poverty over the last few decades.
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5 nutritious habits of the planet's healthiest countries - Page 4 - CNN - 0 views

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      Aninder S on 03 Dec 11
       
      It is interesting to see that Canada did not actually fit into any of the five categories that were presented to us in the article. Yes, the article was written a few years ago, so it maybe irrelevant. However, Canada not meeting any requirements, opens our eyes and let's us realize that no to long ago our health system wasn't as good as it could be now.  
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How Canada Performs 2011-Lifestyle and Health - YouTube - 0 views

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Canada Lifestyle Health

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  • Aninder S on 06 Jan 12
     
    This next video discusses both the positives and the negative associated with Canada's health system. We have improved our overall health rate through the use of modern technology, but we have not been able to control the rise in obesity and diabetes.
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Canada's Food Guide | Heart&Stroke Health Check Program - 0 views

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Canada Food Guide

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  • Eating Well with Canada’s Food Guide provides direction on the type and amount of food we should eat for overall health
  • By choosing a variety of foods from the four food groups (Vegetables and Fruit, Grain Products, Milk and Alternatives and Meat and Alternatives) and following the recommendations to choose foods lower in fat, sugar and salt, you can add to your overall health and vitality.
  • Eat more vegetables and fruit.
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  • Choose whole grains versus refined grains more often.
  • Choose fish* and meat alternatives such as beans, lentils and tofu more often.
  • Drink skim, 1% or 2% milk each day.
  • Within each food group, choose foods that are lower in fat, sugar and salt.
  • Include a small amount (30 – 45 mL) of unsaturated fat, such as oil, salad dressing, soft margarine or mayonnaise each day.
  • Limit your intake of : saturated fats from fatty meats, butter, lard, shortening and hard margarine sugar from desserts and soft drinks foods and beverages high in calories, fat, sugar or salt
  • Avoid foods with trans fats.
  • CFG recommends two food guide servings of fish each week. See Health Canada’s advice on limiting certain types of fish
  • By eating a variety of foods from each of the food groups you’re more likely to get all of the nutrients you need, and by limiting your intake of fat, sugar and salt, our eating pattern will be healthier.
    • Aninder S
      Aninder S on 06 Jan 12
       
      In order to maintain a healthy balance of food make sure you eat from all the four food groups to receive all the nutrients that you require. Now this food guide doesn't always work for everyone because of dietary restrictions, but there are always alternatives. http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/food-guide-aliment/index-eng.php. You can click on this link and actually make your own personal food guide suited to your needs, that way you get all the essential nutrients. 
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Advertising fast food to children and its major shift - YouTube - 0 views

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Marketing Children Fast Food Canada

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  • Aninder S on 06 Jan 12
     
    The number one reason of our health concerns in Canada, is the fast food industry. It's not that Canadians are addicted to fast food, it's the way we are convinced to buy it. Marketing and business schemes are all a part of this world, but using these schemes on kids is cunning way to bring in costumers. Adults and parents need to explain and teach kids about fast food and how it is affecting the modern society. Fast food chains also keep their corporations under wraps, and don't conceal the truth about their products. We need to educate the youth of the future. A starting point may be the documentary the 11th Hour directed by Leila and Nadia Conners.
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Body mass index, overweight or obese, self-reported, adult, by age group and sex - 0 views

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Health Canadians BMI

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  • 18 to 19 years 23.5 21.5 25.6 25.4 23
  • Males 28.9 23.5 32.3 30.0 28.0
  • Females 18.2 19.6 17.6 20.0 18.4
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  • 20 to 34 years 39.3 40.6 40.3 39.3 40.6
  • Males 47.8 50.0 47.9 46.8 48.3 Females 29.9 30.4 32.0 31.1 32.1
  • 35 to 44 years 50.8 51.2 51.8 52.8 52.7 Males 62.0 63.1 62.3 63.6 64.3 Females 38.8 39.2 40.9 41.4 40.3
    • Aninder S
      Aninder S on 06 Jan 12
       
      These numbers show that throughout the years on average the obesity rate in Canada has risen, not in all categories, but in the majority. I haven't posted all age groups, so just click on the link. These numbers also give the a legitimate reason as to why the government taxes so much on unhealthy (junk) food, whereas you don't get taxed on fruits and vegetables. If this system does work, then junk food will become more expensive than healthy food. Which is definitely a good thing. I think countries that don't impose such laws are seeing the most rise in obesity rates, take the US for an example. You can get a meal for $10 here at McDonald's, where in the states $10 could literally get you five meals. Also the states has no limit to coupons. You are allowed to use multiple coupons for one transaction for a single item, and get it totally free, in Canada one coupon per transaction. Finding coupons is not that difficult and you can virtually get things free in the states. Free and food always works with everyone, and it doesn't matter what the food may be.
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Veg.ca - Meat production's environmental toll - 0 views

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Meat Production Environment Humans Population

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  • Between 1950 and 1994, global meat production increased nearly fourfold, rising faster than the human population. During this period, production rates jumped from 18 to 35.4 kilograms per person
  • Overpopulation puts pressure on the earth's resources
  • Each person has needs for food, water, shelter, heating/cooling and transportation. To a large extent domesticated animals have the same needs.
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  • In United States, farm animals outweigh their human brethren by a factor of four to one, effectively making the US "population” balloon from 295 million to 1.2 billion.
  • In Canada, farm animals also outweigh people by a factor of four to one. On a given day there are approximately 14.6 million beef and dairy cattle, 13 million pigs, 8 million turkeys, 96 million chickens, and 30 million people alive in Canada.3
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5 nutritious habits of the planet's healthiest countries - Page 2 - CNN - 0 views

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nutrition countries Canada CNN

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  • Healthy Habit 2: Savor leisurely dining
  • Healthy Habit 3: Practice portion control
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      Jason Levitt on 04 Dec 11
       
      One of the keys to a healthy lifestyle; moderation in all that we do!
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Lack of sleep can make you sick - 0 views

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lack of sleep

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  • An extra hour or two of sleep seems so ... optional. Yet, lack of sleep is implicated in obesity, poor heart health and mental illness.
  • Lack of sleep can trigger certain epileptic seizures. Strokes and heart attacks occur more often in the last third of the night.
  • Stay awake just 17 hours and your brain behaves as though you have a blood alcohol level of 0.05, the legal limit for drunkenness in most European countries.
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  • So don't be too quick to dismiss that apparently lazy teenager, doddering senior or dissolute employee -- there may be sleep-health issues lurking in the background.
  • Students, workaholics, hassled parents and diehard partiers listen up -- a single all-nighter or a week of four or five hours sleep per night impairs your mental and physical performance as if you had a blood alcohol level of about 0.1, over the legal limit of 0.08 for driving in British Columbia.
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      Aninder S on 03 Dec 11
       
      Being in high school, we do tend to get bogged down with work and sacrifice the time we have to sleep, to study for our courses. This article shows us that we're absolutely nothing without our sleep, and we need it ti keep us functionally properly. 
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Obesity, diabetes: expanding India faces big problem - 0 views

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india obesity problems

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  • childhood obesity and diabetes have become an increasing problem among the middle classes, who have largely benefited from a decade of rapid economic growth.
  • The high number of cases among South Asian people has been attributed to genetic factors, including a predisposition to storing more fat.
  • Socio-environmental factors, though, are now seen as playing an increasing role in the rising number of cases of Type 2 diabetes.
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  • The condition, which occurs when the body cannot effectively use the insulin it makes, largely as a result of excess body weight and physical inactivity, was previously seen mainly in older people .
  • But Indian people are less concerned about nutrition. They first focus on the spice of the food, the taste."
  • Overweight children with diabetes are at greater risk of developing heart disease and heart attacks, deteriorating eyesight, kidney failure, high blood pressure and high cholesterol.
    • Aninder S
      Aninder S on 03 Dec 11
       
      This opens your eyes has to how other places other than Canada, but also India, deal with similar cases of obesity. This also shows is that the way we grow up eating sticks with is as a habit. If we develop a habit of eating fatty foods, then we carry that through our lives. It affects you when you get older and you will continue to spread those some learnings to others. 
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Canada's Food Guide - 0 views

Canada's Food Guide | Heart&Stroke Health Check Program: Canada wants to ensure that its citizens live and eat healthy, so it uses this Food guide to help us make healthy choices. The neat thing a...

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Home Exercises For Teen Girls | LIVESTRONG.COM - 0 views

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exercises teen girls healthy

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  • Commercial Crunch
  • McMaster University in Canada found that short bursts of exercises were just as effective as long sessions.
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  • try playing a video game like "Dance, Dance Revolution." You'll burn calories and get to work on your moves at the same time, all in the comfort of your home.
  • try other video games geared to fitness such as "Wii Fit" or "Wii Active."
  • include activities and games so that you concentrate more on the fun than you do the exercise.
  • Pickup Game
  • purchase a basketball hoop, soccer net or hockey net for the home
  • You don't need to be a professional to try to shoot a few hoops
  • Workout Research
  • Your library can be a wealth of interesting workout ideas and programs that you can try so you never feel trapped into one workout program.
  • You may even find that you have a passion for a certain type of exercise, whether it's yoga, kickboxing, aerobics or something else
  • Friend Support
  • Talk one of your friends into exercising with you at home each day after school.
  • Make it a standing date that you meet up several times per week for exercising, and make a rule to not cancel on each other.
  • give you the final push that you need to become active and healthy.
  • Joti P on 06 Jan 12
     
    Some easy-to-do-at-home exercises. For question #6.
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Obesity Silent Killer in India - YouTube - 0 views

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Obesity India

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    The fact that obesity has become the number one reason of death, alongside malnutrition, is a frightening thought. Currently, in Canada, the number one cause of death is cancer, which is in many cases uncontrolled by the person who is diagnosed by it. But obesity, however, is a something we do to ourselves because we don't look after our bodies. And it is more difficult as well for people in India to find an alternative source to unhealthy food, because of the country's economic state. Perhaps with further government funding for health issues, the country might be able to work at one of it's major causes of deaths.
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Puberty a gateway to heart disease for Canada's teens - Heart and Stroke Foundation of ... - 0 views

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Teens Heart Disease Health

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  • One in five young teens has high blood pressure. Elevated cholesterol levels increasing at alarming rate.
  • A seven-year ongoing study examining more than 20,000 Canadian grade 9 students shows most already have at least one major risk factor for heart disease and stroke, Dr. Brian McCrindle told the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress 2009, co-hosted by the Heart and Stroke Foundation and the Canadian Cardiovascular Society
  • This study is further evidence of an accelerating decline in the heart health of Canada’s teens
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  • It is shocking that one in five 14 and 15 year olds has high blood pressure
  • They are at risk of developing long-term health effects such as premature heart disease and type 2 diabetes.”
  • High blood pressure is the leading cause of stroke and a major risk factor for heart disease.
  • The teens’ elevated cholesterol rates had the greatest increase, accelerating from nine to 16 per cent in six years. “An increase of this magnitude in this age group is astonishing,” says Dr. Abramson. “These risk factor levels will continue to increase and track into adulthood unless we do something now. These children are in grave danger.”
  • With changing technologies, we to need to exercise our bodies more than our brains
  • Over 50 per cent of Canadian children between the ages of five and 17 aren’t active enough to support optimal health and development – and over a quarter of our children and youth are overweight or obese.” 
  • They don’t do any better on the nutrition front: only half get the daily recommended amount of fruit and vegetables.
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Exercise drops when teens enter college - UPI.com - 0 views

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University Teens Exercise

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  • The amount of regular exercise teens get drops off severely once they enter college, especially among males, researchers in Canada say.
  • 24 percent decrease in physical activity during the 12 years from adolescence to early adulthood
  • The steepest declines were among young men entering university or college.
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  • Using data from Statistics Canada's National Population Health Survey, the researchers tracked 683 Canadian adolescents ages 12-15, who were interviewed twice a year until they were ages 24-27.
  • This is a critical period, as the changes in physical activity during the transition from late adolescence to early adulthood represents the most dramatic declines in physical activity across a person's life
  • The study, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, found the rate of decline in physical activity was greater for men than for women, who showed only a modest 1.7 per cent decrease in their overall activity levels
  • "It may be that girls experience the greatest declines in physical activity earlier in their adolescence
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Puberty a gateway to heart disease for Canada's teens - Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada: The most common and easily obtainable disease is heart disease. Teens these days have become much mor...

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