Annie Smith: Immigration

Impoverished Youth Dept: The percentage of adolescents who exercise every day rose to 26 from 22, the percentage involved in organized sports four or more times a week rose to 30 from 25, and those involved in dance rose to 22 from 18 per cent, said Annie Smith, executive director of the McCreary Centre Society, a non-profit group with a mandate to improve youth health, according to Vancouver Sun. "Kids are clearly not as active as they need to be, but overall, definitely we saw improvements," said Smith, who added the society was unable to pinpoint reasons for the change and adolescents in B.C. are exercising more than they were a decade ago, but more needs to be done to reach out to immigrant, disabled, gay and bisexual, and impoverished youth who are largely exempt from this rosier health picture, says a recent survey. The results are based on responses from more than 29,000 students from Grade 7 to 12 who completed the 2008 B.C. adolescent health survey, which the society delivered to 1,760 classrooms in 50 of B.C.'s 59 school districts. As reported in the news.
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