Alberta Centre for Active Living
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ABORIGINAL
Video presentations of 45-minute
webinars which provide support in making positive changes in Aboriginal
communities. PowerPoint files and handouts are also available.
ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION
This 16 page
.pdf from America Walks - touches upon
the power of walking and walkability for health, business, community, schools,
and the environment.
Every Body
Walk! is a campaign aimed at getting Americans up and moving. Through the help
of our partners, we are working to spread the message that walking 30 minutes a
day, five days a week really can improve your overall health and prevent
disease. We provide news and resources on walking, health information, walking
maps, how to find walking groups, a personal pledge form to start walking, as
well as a place to share stories about individual experiences with walking.
“The city of
Calgary has seen inner-city neighbourhood real estate prices skyrocket in recent
years as people become fed up with long commute times from outer suburbs,” said
REIN research analyst Allyssa Epp. in a commentary. “Between 2000 and 2012, the
10 communities that saw the largest spikes in average home prices were in the
city’s core and surrounding neighbourhoods.
The CDC is going to produce a Surgeon
General’s report that is “a call to action on walking.” That’ll be accompanied
by a national campaign for walking. “We want to lend the voice of the Office of
the Surgeon General to this particular physical activity,” she said. “It’s easy
to do, anyone can do it and it’s fun.”
League of
American Bicyclists, March 2013, Washington D.C.
Two great
infographics can be found in the right hand (media and assets) column of this page. Anatomy of Walking and Health Benefits of
Walking.
CHILDREN
Journal of Nutrition Education and
Behavior Available online 21 March 2013
The Mighty Moves intervention
demonstrated significant changes in gross motor skills among preschoolers.
Preventive Medicine online 24 February
2013 In Press
► This study focuses on the
under-researched group of early primary school children (5–7 year olds). ► We
capture children’s motivation to play and help adults reconsider value of
healthy risk taking. ► Increased physical activity during school breaks, larger
than comparable studies, was measured. ► Whether the increases can be
maintained remains to be seen; evidence in one school suggests they can.
Active Living Research- Using Evidence
to Prevent Childhood Obesity and Create Active Communities: Research Brief
February 2013
This information can help legislators,
school officials, and other policy-makers make well-informed decisions that can
enhance physical activity in youth.
CONFERENCES
May 19 - 22, 2014 Toronto, Canada
HEALTH GENERAL
The Lancet, Early Online Publication, 27
March 2013
The harsh spending cuts introduced by
European governments to tackle their crippling debt problems have not only
pitched the region into recession — they are also being partly blamed for
outbreaks of diseases not normally seen in Europe and a spike in suicides
MENTAL HEALTH
In early 2013, the Canadian Mental
Health Association, Ontario Division (CMHA), in partnership with YMCA Ontario
and Parks and Recreation Ontario (PRO), launched the Enabling Minds project.
The goal is to reduce barriers that prevent people with mental health-related
disabilities from accessing physical activity programs and resources at
community centres, fitness clubs, parks and other recreation or fitness
facilities.
OLDER ADULTS
Given the challenges of pharmaceutical
treatment for modifiable and non modifiable risk factors for Alzheimer’s
disease, a focus on modifiable risk factors such as physical inactivity is
warranted…..
A growing body of research points to the
importance of designing or retrofitting communities for walkability to
accommodate senior citizens and allow them to maintain a healthy, active
lifestyle upon retirement. Walkable neighborhoods help seniors remain active,
healthy, social and free to move around.
PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
From this website you can download the full
report or individual chapters – such as ‘physical activity’. The user-friendly format addresses risk
factors in short chapters with summary tables linking risk factors/exposures
and cancers. Shaded boxes in many chapters give definitional and measurement
information. Each chapter has an extensive bibliography for further detail on
specific cancer-risk factor associations.
A document from Coaching Ireland about
the importance of pathways for fundamental movement skills and physical
literacy. Regular physical activity is
an essential element of a healthy lifestyle for children and adults, and it is
one area of our health over which we have control. The LISPA framework of
Lifelong Involvement in Sport and Physical Activity can assist in creating an
environment that ensures everyone learns the fundamentals of movement and are
provided with a pathway to develop and continue within sport and physical
activity.
Appetite Volume 62, 1 March 2013, Pages
173–181
► Do physical activity based labels result
in the selection of lower calorie meals from a sample menu? ► Physical activity
based labels were effective in influencing the selection of lower calorie
meals. ► A majority of participants reported a preference for these physical
activity based menu labels.
News Story based on above research paper…… Public
awareness posters used by the campaign showed the number of miles a person
would have to walk to burn off the calories in a 20-ounce soda, and new research
suggests that physical activity–based conversions such as these can actually
persuade people to make healthier choices.
URBAN DESIGN
Both developed and developing world
cities are still struggling to get urban development right, said some of the
world’s leading urban experts at the Transforming Transportation conference
organized by the World Bank Group and the EMBARQ program of the World Resources
Institute (WRI).
Neighborhoods with a mix of residences,
offices and retail outlets are now conventionally thought to have a host of
benefits, a departure in thinking from the years of urban planning when cities
sought to segregate uses of land….. add one more – reduced crime.
Here is a link to the research
paper mentioned in the article
These resources are designed to be used by local
leaders working to put Complete Streets policies into action. Throughout those
pages you can find best practices, suggested activities, and resources to help
guide your community through Complete Streets implementation. We provide
examples of materials that are used by communities of all sizes from across the
country at all stages of policy implementation.
Reconnecting America has launched The
Direct Transfer, a new site that compiles news, blog posts and research papers
on different urban-focused topics.
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