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🔶 This #WearAndShareWednesday, take a stand.
Join thousands across Canada on May 15 for Moose Hide Campaign Day — a day to reflect, learn, and act to end gender-based violence.
✍️ Register: https://t.co/wVWaM0J7yM
#MooseHideCampaign
A new report shows that #exercise is even better for the #brain than previously thought—and in surprising ways. #Stress has a detrimental effect on brain health, along with the rest of our bodies, and exercise helps us manage it...
https://t.co/HTkMCrVS9t
As little as two hours per week in parks, fields and forests can lead to better health & wellbeing.
Being in #nature has a calming effect and can result in a lower occurrence of stress, depression and anxiety...
https://t.co/1UM1iLaSgL
A team of researchers in London looked at 30,000 Canadians over the age of 45 & identified the Top 12 controllable risk factors for #dementia. In order of significance:
1. Physical inactivity
2. Hearing loss
3. Obesity
4. Hypertension
6. Depression
https://t.co/ExXhhHtcbD
Today is day #1 of the #94in94 campaign. Share this post to challenge your network to read and reflect on one Call to Action a day for 94 days so that one day every Canadian will know which call they can act on!
This study finds #exercise is an effective treatment for #depression, with walking or jogging, yoga, and strength training more effective than other exercises, particularly when intense. Yoga and strength training were well tolerated...
@mnoetel, @UQPsych
https://t.co/bcKDL09dCs
By age 14, girls are dropping out of sports at approximately twice the rate of boys, which makes this time critical for keeping girls in sport. Here's more about what the research says and what parents and coaches can do: https://t.co/tK2HboxFG0
Read the full text call to action!
https://t.co/YNdyhnS8vQ
Retweet to challenge your network to read the 94 calls to Action
#94in94#truthandreconciliation
/reconciliationthunder.org/94in94
@Rec_Thunder
@ForCircles
@nctr_um