Celebrating the Past - CAHPERD 75th Anniversary

Celebrate the Past

The special anniversary site will continue to develop and we hope you will help by submitting your Then and Now memories. What were the issues back Then and what is the status Now!

Then Now
Trends in Health
1954		2008
School Health Education CAHPER Journal September, 1954 Lorne Brown Prov. Normal School Vancouver, BC ……It is important that we have health education in the grades. It is more important that we become realistic that we have not been successful so far. …It is obvious to me that the whole approach to health education in the classroom must change. How often do we see children reciting perfectly Canada’s Food Rules, after which they proceed to the corner store and buy a bottle of pop and a doughnut for lunch? All the advertising we see, which truly establishes the pattern of living among you people is directed at the emotional side of life, and not the intellectual. …Certainly great progress has been made in the last half of the century. This is part, due to the great expansion of public health services. It is partly due to the newer concepts being passed on to our teachers in training. It is partly due to the valuable work of the Federal government and the many voluntary agencies at work among us. We have solved many of the problems of disease and sanitation. We are entering an era where many of the degenerative and mental diseases will be better understood and therefore treated more adequately. The day will come in our lifetime when we shall know more about the cause of accidents and the effects of a more sedentary life, the problems related to food and diet, the real effects of alcohol and tobacco and so on. I am very optimistic of the future as long as we broaden our outlook and consider that the health of all peoples of the world is essential if we are to survive.		Canada urged to ban junk-food ads aimed at kids OTTAWA - Dr. David McKeown, Toronto's medical officer of health, is calling on Canadian politicians to address the country's growing obesity rate by banning junk food advertising to children under 13. Ontario Schools To Be Trans Fat Free McGuinty Government Giving Kids Healthier Choices April 16, 2008 Students in Ontario will be getting healthier because the food and beverages sold in schools will need to be free of trans fat. Levels of obesity among young Canadian children have nearly tripled over the last 25 years. Providing healthier options and reducing trans fat will help improve the health of young people. The legislation passed today will require schools to drop trans fat from school cafeterias, vending machines and tuck shops. Some foods that naturally contain small amounts of trans fat, such as beef and milk, will be allowed. Special event days will be exempt.

Then Now
Looking back at CAHPERD’s strategic objectives
1933	1974	2008
To stimulate universal, intelligent and active interest in Health and Physical Education	Acquire and disseminate knowledge pertaining to physical activity of human beings	Develop and build the fundamental blocks of quality physical and health education
To promote interest and strive for the establishment of educative programs under the direction of adequately trained teachers	Promote the establishment of acceptable programs of physical activity under the direction of qualified leaders	Develop and build the fundamental building blocks of Quality Physical and Health Education.
To co-operate with kindred interests and organizations in furtherance of these aims	Encourage relationships among professional groups concerned with human physical activity	Influence governments, organizations and individual to understand, endorse and take action on Quality Physical and Health Education.