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What is it?It is a Guide to help you make wise choices about physical activity. Choices that will improve your health, help prevent disease, and allow you to get the most out of life. The Guide is in a one-page, easy-to-read format that's available for order on its own, or as a pull-out section in a Handbook that gives you even more information on building physical activity into your daily life. Public Health Agency of Canada and the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology (CSEP) worked in partnership to develop Canada's Physical Activity Guide to Healthy Active Living. Research indicated that Canadians were unaware that physical inactivity is a serious risk factor for premature death, chronic disease and disability, a magnitude of risk comparable to that of smoking. Two-thirds of Canadians are inactive, a serious threat to their health and a burden on the public health care system. Canadians were confused by all the data and information available about physical activity and fitness and wanted a valid and practical guide, similar to Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating, that would help them judge how much physical activity they needed to achieve better health.
Most of the information from the handbook is posted on this site, but you can order FREE hard copies of the Guide itself, or the Handbook with the Guide pull-out. It's easier than you think Improving your health through physical activity is easier than you think.You will gain significant health benefits just by adding physical activity to your daily routine. Your benefits will increase as you add more activities to your day. The best news of all is that physical activity doesn't have to be very hard to improve your health! This Handbook has been designed to help you get started. It tells you why physical activity is important for your health, and the problems you could experience if you are inactive. It gives you lots of examples to help you choose physical activity that's right for you. It will help you to build physical activity into your routines at home, at school, at work, at play and on the way . It shows you how you can start slowly and build up so that active living becomes as natural as brushing your teeth or putting on your seat belt. No matter what you are doing now, there are tips to help you become more active, enjoy better health and get the most out of life. There are examples of people just like you, who are working to get moving and improve their health through regular physical activity. Just by reading this Handbook, you are taking the first step to a more active and healthier lifestyle.
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The
Guide provides a rainbow of physical activities that can help you have
more energy, move more easily, and get stronger. It tells you how much
activity you should strive for and how to get started. It also lists the
many benefits of physical activity and the health risks of inactivity.
This Handbook provides additional information to help you make the best
use of the Guide. 
