Active Living WisdomCard™
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Research Notes on Active Living
Active living is a way of life that integrates physical activity into daily routines, like walking to the store or biking to work. Active living brings together urban planners, architects, transportation engineers, public health professionals and others to build places that encourage routine activity. ...read more from Wikipedia
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- Active Community Environments Initiative (ACES) is a program developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), wherein it encourages environmental and policy interventions that will increase the levels of physical activity and improve the public health.1
- KidsWalk-to-School program is one of the plans which promote walking and bicycling to school.1
- Other plans include efforts to build sidewalks, crosswalks and other ways for children to walk safely to and from school.1
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Research Notes References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: ACES — Active Community Environments Initiative
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- Contributor: Aimee Abellaneda
- Reviewer: Elisa Carter
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Last update: Oct. 14, 2009
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- Contributor: Aimee Abellaneda
- Reviewer: Elisa Carter
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Redirects: Active lifestyle, Active activity
- Last update: Nov. 28, 2008
Each WisdomCard is handcrafted by our team of physician-guided health advocates. Our goal is to make it easy for you to find the most useful health resources for any health topic by filtering out spam and bad links.