The NWTRPA Walking Challenge: The annual community walking challenge that takes place in January and February.Check out these programs and events that encourage everyone from children to seniors to get up and get active:
Being active encourages socialization, reduces screen time and builds strong family dynamics. Being active while young has positive effects on the brain, body and immune system as it develops and teaches children the importance of being active at every stage and age of their lives. Go for a walk, snowshoe through the forest, hunt, fish, and explore your surroundings – just make sure you bundle-up!Įncouraging children and youth to be physically active at a young age will have positive life-long effects. Additionally, being out in nature impacts the brain in a positive way, making you feel better about yourself.
Outdoor exercise stimulates all five senses in a way that indoor activities cannot. Spending time in nature and the natural light can improve your mood, reduce stress and depression, and provide your body with the very important vitamin D. Sport North Federation – Territorial Sports OrganizationsĮven in cold weather, getting outside is one of the easiest ways to get active and strengthen your immune system.
Do a quick online search, and you’ll find recreation leagues, drop-in intramurals, lane swimming, Hand Games, working on the land, dance classes, and so much more! Find out what’s available in your community and what interests you: Physical activity looks different for everyone and there’s many options. Need tips? Check out Canada’s Physical Activity Guide to help get you started. There are endless ways you can be active, what is important is the activity is consistent, appropriate for your age and ability and at least half an hour a day. Long-term benefits include helping with weight loss or weight maintenance, strengthening bones and muscles, improving sleep quality and boosting your immune system. The promotion of physical activity, healthy diet and smoking cessation in all mid-life populations should be encouraged for successful ageing and the prevention of disability and chronic disease.Physical and outdoor activity play an important role in every Northerners health, well-being and quality of life.īeing physically active every day has been proven to have immediate benefits including reducing stress and boosting your energy. Conclusions There is consistent evidence of associations between mid-life behaviours and a range of late life outcomes. Limited, but supportive, evidence was available relating specifically to mid-life diet, leisure and social activities or health inequalities. Evidence specific to alcohol consumption was mixed. Across all populations studied there is consistent evidence that mid-life smoking has a detrimental effect on health. There is consistent evidence of beneficial associa- tions between mid-life physical activity, healthy ageing and disease outcomes. Outcomes include dementia, frailty, disability and cardiovascular disease. Follow-up data ranged from five years to 36 years. Findings This search located 10,338 individual references, of which 164 are included in this review. Evidence was synthesised by mid-life behavioural risk for a range of late life outcomes. Two reviewers screened titles, abstracts and papers independently.
Multivariate analyses and a minimum follow-up of five years were required for inclusion. Methods A literature search was conducted to identify cohort studies published in English since 2000 up to Dec 2014. This review aimed to provide an overview of behavioural risk factors in mid-life that are associated with successful ageing and the primary prevention or delay of disability, dementia, frailty and non-communicable chronic conditions. Whilst the links between specific and multiple risk behaviours and individual chronic conditions are well documented, the impact of these behaviours in mid-life across a range of later life outcomes has yet to be comprehensively assessed. Background Smoking, alcohol consumption, poor diet and low levels of physical activity significantly contribute to the burden of illness in developed countries.
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