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• Physical inactivity is one of the five leading global risk factors for mortality and is estimated to cause 2 million deaths per year.

• A billion people worldwide are overweight and 300 million are obese.
  

• More than half of Canadians are considered inactive. (CFLRI. (2008). Results of the 2008 Physical Activity and Sport Monitor. retrieved from http://www.cflri.ca/eng/levels/adult_levels.php)

• Childhood obesity in Canada has tripled over the past three decades. (Source: Shilds, M. (2005). Measured Obesity: Overweight Canadian children and adolescents. Statistics Canada, Analytic Studies and Reports. ISSN: 1716-6713

• The New England Journal of Medicine reports that, for the first time in history, our children's lifespan could be 2-5 years less than our own. (Source:(Olshansky, S. J., Passaro, D. J., Hershow, R. C., Layden, J., Carnes, B. A., Brody, J., Hayflick, L., Butler, R. N., Allison, D. B., & Ludwig, D. S. (2005). A potential decline in life expectancy in the United States in the 21st Century. The New England Journal of Medicine, 352, 1138-1145)

• Canadian kids are spending six hours a day in front of television, video games and computer screens - over the course of a week, that is as much time as their parents spend at work. (Active Healthy Kids Canada. (2010) Healthy habits start earlier than you think: The Active Healthy Kids Canada report card on physical activity for children and youth 2010, Toronto, ON.)