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3rd International Congress on Physical Activity and Public Health

This event is the third in a series of congresses organized to better understand the research, public policies and programs pertaining to the complex relationships between physical activity and health.

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Resources with Heart

Post date: February 23, 2010

How can you fit 29 people onto one bike? Make it really big! The Heart and Stroke Foundation is bringing Big Bike to various locations across Ontario this May and June 2010.

New edition of Mental Health and Physical Activity journal

Post date: February 23, 2010

A new edition of Mental Health and Physical Activity (MENPA) has been released. MENPA is an academic peer-reviewed journal that promotes high-quality research in understanding the link between mental health and physical activity.

How can we make Ontario the healthiest province?

Post date: February 23, 2010

To improve population health, Ontario could learn from leading provinces such as British Columbia, according to a report from the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences.

Survey on the promotion of healthy eating for people with mental illness

Post date: February 22, 2010

The Canadian Mental Health Association, Ontario is launching part 2 of the Minding Our Bodies project: “Eating Well for Mental Health.” Our goal is to increase the capacity of mental health service providers to deliver healthy eating programs for people with mental illness in their local communities.

Minding Our Bodies Newsletter, Issue No. 3

Post date: December 18, 2009

The Minding Our Bodies project has been very active during the past eight months, with training, launching and evaluating our six pilot programs, and beginning to share our findings. Looking to the future, we’ve begun to prepare for phase 2 of the Minding Our Bodies project: Eating Well for Mental Health. Read on for details.