A rising percentage of Canadians have become at least moderately active in their leisure time during the past decade.
Even so, a new study shows that almost one-half (48 percent) of the population aged 12 or older, some 12.7 million people, were classified as "inactive" during their leisure time in 2005, meaning that they did the equivalent of less than half an hour of walking each day.
As well, 25 percent of Canadians, or 6.6 million, reported that they usually sat most of the day. And during a typical week, 41 percent of Canadians, or 10.8 million, spent less than one hour walking to get to school or work or to do errands. More at
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