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Did you know that Canada plans to ease physical-fitness guidelines?

14 January, 2011

GLORIA GALLOWAY
OTTAWA— From Wednesday's Globe and Mail
Published Tuesday, Jan. 04, 2011 9:03PM EST

Canadians won’t have to sweat as much to meet national physical-activity standards after experts determined that health benefits can be achieved with less effort than demanded by the existing targets that few of us are meeting.

Even though Canada’s guidelines are being softened, experts say more activity is best in almost every case. And some hope that, by making the goals easier to reach, more Canadians will be persuaded to get moving.