ParticipAction's latest report card, released Tuesday, gives Canada's kids a D+ for overall physical activity. It found that 39 per cent of children between the ages of five and 17 met the recommendation of 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous exercise a day.
"It's a very tough aspiration in the world in which we live right now, where the built environment is one that is more conducive to being indoors and inactive," said Tremblay, who is also a senior scientist withan obesity research group at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute in Ottawa.
"We consciously try to get them out," Pringle said beside a field where their kids were trying out a couple of baseball bats. If the family wants to skate together, the cost can be nearly $30 each time, limiting how often they can participate each week, he said. Lem said about 900,000 Canadians have received a"nature prescription" to visit a park or just get outside as part of a program launched by the BC Parks Foundation in November 2020 before it was initiated in every province by June 2022.
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