Benefits of Active Living

Social Benefits

• Benefits of Recreation
  vancouver.ca/parks/rec/benefits.htm
  
  
• Children and Sports
  Straight Talk [8.36Mb]
  
  
• Community Design and Fitness
  Obesity Relationships with Community Design, Physical Activity, and Time Spent in Cars [2.83Mb]
  
  
• Incarceration versus Recreation Participation
  Incarceration versus Recreation Participation
  
  
• Middle Childhood Inside and Out
  Measuring the Developmental Health and Well-being of Children in Middle Childhood
  The Psychological and Social World of Children 9-12
  
  
• Participaction - Take Action
  Participaction - Plan for Action
  
  
• Physical Activity Report for Children and Youth
  Physical Activity Among BC Youth - 2008 Report [3.7MB]
  Physical Activity Report for Children and Youth - 2009 Report
  Physical Activity Report for Children and Youth - 2010 Report [9.3MB]
  Physical Activity Report for Children and Youth - 2011 Report [7.7MB]
  
  
• Strengthening Canada
  The Socio-economic Benefits of Sport Participation in Canada
  
  

Walkable Communities

• Walkable Community - Vancouver
  Walkability Surface
  
  
• Benefits of Walkable Communities
  BCRPA Transportation Study 2009
  Many Pathways from Land Use to Health
  
  
• Transport Canada's Sustainable Development Strategy 2007-2009
  Backgrounder: Active Transportation in the Canadian Context
  International Active Transportation Backgrounder - Final Draft
  
  
• Cycling in Canadian Cities
  Cycling in Cities

Benefits of Healthy Weight

• Diabetes: an American Epidemic
  Diabetes An American Epidemic - Economist Feb 15th 2007
  
  
• Health, Fitness and Obesity
  Healthy Weights for Healthy Kids
  
  
• Management and Prevention of Obesity in Adults and Children
  2006 Canadian clinical practice guidelines on the management and prevention of obesity in adults and children  [2.57Mb]
  
  
• Resource Guide for Nutrition and Physical Activity
  Interventions to Prevent Obesity and Other Chronic Diseases
  
  

Benefits of Healthy Nutrition

• Social Planning Food Policy
  Seasonal Update Late Winter 2007 
  
  
• Yale University Study on Food and Tobacco
  "The Perils of Ignoring History" (2009) 
  
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