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Health Promotion Minister applauds school fitness program
The Review (Niagara Falls) (Tue 11 Apr 2006 Byline: Corey Larocque) writes that Cherrywood Acres elementary school's program to walk across Canada was a fun way to stay in shape and learn about the country, and Ontario's minister of health promotion, Jim Watson, holds up the school's Movin' Across Canada program as the kind of fitness exercise other schools should copy. The students have used pedometers to keep track of how far they walked or ran each day since September. Each student accumulated enough kilometres equivalent to walking the 5,000 kilometres from St. John's, N.L. to Victoria, B.C. In Ontario, where childhood obesity is emerging as a serious health issue, the first Minister of Health Promotion Jim Watson said he's holding up the Cherrywood Acres program as a success story. In-school fitness programs will become more important as the province tries to help young people fight the battle of the bulge.
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