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The Health Promotion Department works towards making the healthy choice the easier choice in the places where we live, work, learn and play. We work with professionals, organizations, cities, communities, municipalities, and government on strategies to facilitate active living in our daily lives through community design, policy, education.

  1. More recently, CDC established a Physical Activity Policy Research Network. Active Living Research is managing a $12.5 million research fund devoted to supporting transdisciplinary research on environmental and policy aspects of active living. Public health and behavioral scientists have been prominent in the hundreds of submitted applications.
  2. Daily physical activity is not only fun, but one of the most important things you can do for your physical and mental health. Daily physical activity helps prevent and manage depression and other chronic diseases like heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity.
  3. Life course impact of school-based promotion of healthy eating and active living to prevent childhood obesity. Tran BX(1), Ohinmaa A(1), Kuhle S(2), Johnson JA(1), Veugelers PJ(1). Author information: (1)School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
  4. WHO's Global School Health Initiative, launched in 1995, seeks to mobilise and strengthen health promotion and education activities at the local, national, regional and global levels. The Initiative is designed to improve the health of students, school personnel, families and other members of the community through schools.

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Daily physical activity is not only fun, but one of the most important things you can do for your physical and mental health. Daily physical activity helps prevent and manage depression and other chronic diseases like heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity.

Physical activity is important for everyone. This includes gardening, walking or biking to school. Daily physical activity has been shown to help children do better in school, and improve the ability of older adults to stay active and prevent falls.

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