Health and Nutrition

Overeating

Changing Lifestyles

Eating too much or too little food can be unhealthy. Today, most of us lead a much more sedentary lifestyle than Canadians did 50 or 100 years ago. Unfortunately, we have not reduced the amount of food we eat or adjusted our physical activity accordingly.

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The 1890s Exercising on the farm
Glenbow Archives NA-1148-11
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The 1910s Exercising at school
Archives of Ontario C 130-1-0-23-94
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The 1950s Exercising at a picnic
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The 1960s Exercising in the gym
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Today

Growing Bigger

Childhood obesity could lower life expectancy, with increased health risks leading to chronic illness, such as type 2 diabetes, at an earlier age.

Many Canadian children are overweight, or even obese, because they eat a lot of high-calorie foods and spend too much of their leisure time sitting in front of a computer or television.

“Over the past two decades, rates of overweight and obesity have nearly tripled among Canadian children.”
— Improving the Health of Canadians, Canadian Institute for Health Information, 2004

Obesity
(external link: Health Canda)

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