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This percentage of children between the ages of 5 and 17 are considered overweight or obese.
What is 30%?
This term for bullying someone because of their size can result in isolation, lower rates of self-esteem, and higher rates of depression later in life.
What is fat shaming?
According to Canada's Food Guide, a variety of this should be consumed daily.
What is healthy foods?
This prevents heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and certain forms of cancer.
What is exercise?
This is the amount of time that Canadian children are spending on technology a day.
7 ½ hours.
This period during which growth advances at a dramatically rapid rate compared with other periods.
What is growth spurt?
Other causes of childhood obesity include reduced resources for physical education, hectic family schedules that limit family mealtime, and the food industry, which advertises this inexpensive food to children.
What is high calorie food?
Being mindful of eating habits and knowing when you are hungry or full are important for preventing childhood obesity according to this government publication.
What is Canada's Food Guide?
The average 8-10 year old requires this many calories daily.
1600 calories.
More than half of Canadians aged 5 to 17 years are not spending enough time being this for optimal growth and development.
What is active?
Canada's food guide recommends replacing sugary drinks with this.
What is water?
This should be limited to no more than 2 hours a day in order to promote a healthy and active lifestyle.
What is screen time?
Vegetables should take up this percentage of a child's plate.
What is 50%?
This lifestyle that lacks physical fitness has been an issue among Canadian children over the past several decades.
What is sedentary lifestyle?
Some people inherit a tendency to burn up extra calories, whereas others inherit a tendency to turn extra calories into this.
What is fat?
This is an important first step towards preventing child obesity.
What is educating parents?