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McMaster profs start new community running program

As reported by Exchange Magazine, two professors from Hamilton's McMaster University have started a new community program to help combat childhood obesity. Called Adventure Running Kids, the program employs a variety of running activities (i.e. night running, snowshoe running) to get kids, aged 8 to 16, excited about physical activity.
 
"Mike Waddington, professor of Geography and Earth Sciences, and Mark Tarnopolsky, professor of Medicine, both of them world-class athletes when they aren't conducting research in their labs or in the field, came up with the idea of Adventure Running Kids when they witnessed an increase in child obesity and a decrease in children's knowledge of their environment."

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