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14 - The Canadian Champion, Fiday,_Februa 19 3 GIRLP TEUTE 19 D&Wy7:00 :lp. S & Sun. &45Opm. STUART UTTLE FA ftt a Sun. 2-.00 P.M LLE 1 ýj JFVIDEO SHUTTLE TOP in y25,2000 Inactivity poses serious health ri*sks By LISA CARTWRIGHT The Champion People who are physically inactive face similar health risks as those who smoke. "Being inactive offers thse same risk for heart disease and cancer as smoking a pack of cigarettes a day,' said CarIa Hanna, the physical activity promnoter for thse Heart HealtIs and Cancer Presentation Tearn at the Halton Regional Health Department. But there is good news. The federal government released ils Canada's Physical Activity Guide to Healthy Active Living. Thse guide is simi- lar in format to Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating, and offers somne new find- ings. e se. FIND on page 15 Scientiste now say people need 30 ta 60 minutes af sctivlty per day if they want ta stay healthy and Imprave their lfestyle. We could have 'Nati"onal Holiday Day' Around this time of year there's always talk to the soutls, but as hard as we try it just doesn't about how we should be getting a holiday to break seemn to work for us. Somnehow, the accomplish- up the monotony of winter and give workers a ments of our forefathers aren't as important to us well-deserved break. -because they haven't been made into a 'Movie of 1 work seven days a week and 358 days a year , the Week' or an action series. - 359 when it's a leap year such as this one, so O nf thel I know Louis Riel did something cool, for exam- it's not me I'm worried about, but most of you. 1pie, but 1 have no ides what. 1 do know that Daniel You're welcome. oo e Boone was a man, yes, a real man. I can't remem- We need a holiday and we need a good excuse. el ber the rest of the theme song anymore, but he 'Me United States just had a holiday on Monday - *along with Hawkeye, Wyatt Earp and a bunch of they caîl President's Day. What it is in reality, others are the real heroes as far as many of us though, is National Joke Day. It's mostly just a But they get a day off to do it, and that's what know. reminder that they haven't told any Bill Clinton we need. I think we probably need a holiday that stands jokes in a couple of days. We could go the patriotic route like our friends *ses 1 COULD on page 15