Ottawa Citizen “We applaud Senator Nancy Greene Raine for her introduction last week of a bill in the Senate to prohibit the advertising of all food and beverages to children age 12 and under. We would prefer the senator’s bill would apply to children and youth 16 years and younger, but her proposal is a […]
Montreal Gazette A landmark study of toddlers confirms the obesity epidemic starts early, but at a far younger age than researchers had ever realized. Alarming new data show that one in four 18-month-olds is overweight and at risk of becoming obese. Read more here…
CTV News A proposed amendment to Canada’s Food and Drugs Act would ban the advertising and sales of junk food and sugary drinks to children under the age of 13. “Legislation will protect kids, support parents as they teach their children healthy habits, and ensure all companies have to play by the same rules. We urge the government to move quickly […]
NBC News The news that the sugar industry had been keeping its finger on the scale for decades when it came to whether sweet or fatty foods were more to blame for heart disease was a shocking disclosure, but it’s not the first time corporate interests have been caught manipulating numbers to put the odds […]
Driving down the street passing a KFC sign, my 2-year old niece announced to her mom that she wanted to go to “the chicken house”. Her mom was surprised at the request because she had never taken her daughter there, nor talked about the restaurant, and her daughter rarely watched television commercials. Yet, my niece […]
Recently, my son asked me to buy him a sports drink after baseball practice with a sideways glance to see if I would bite. He followed with a flurried explanation about being sweaty after running around and some mumbling about electrolytes and his muscles. He whined and pleaded after my predictable answer that ‘water is […]
Metro News-Vancouver They’re calling junk food the “new tobacco” war… Some of Canada’s largest and most influential health charities — led by the Heart and Stroke Foundation and the Childhood Obesity Foundation — are girding for a battle they’re comparing to their 1990s campaigns against the cigarette industry. Read more…
19 July 2016 National Post Dr. Tom Warshawski, Chair of the Childhood Obesity Foundation and Co-Chair of the Stop Marketing to Kids Coalition, recommends that parents respond to Canada’s increasingly “obesogenic environment” by “cutting through the noise”. Read more…
Click here to download slides from Part 1 of the webinar Click here to download slides from Part 2 of the webinar Who’s Feeding the Kids Online? Report can be downloaded here
McMaster University researchers found that advertisements for junk food increased the amount of unhealthy food and beverage choices that children made. Read more…
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