Independent UK
Study shows that 18 percent of eight to 11-year-olds had a profile on a social media network despite most having registration restrictions for children under 13. View full report: Ofcom UK: Why children spend time online
Op-ed by Dr. Andrew Pipe and Yves Savoie, applauding Health Canada for the modern, free-of-industry-influence on Canada’s new Food Guide. The OpEd highlights the two remaining critical components: 1) restrictions on marketing to children and 2) front-of-pack nutrition labels.
Food Politics | Marion Nestle
“It never occurred to me that we needed more research to prove that advertising to kids makes them want food products, pester their parents to buy the products, say they like the products, and actually eat the products”. Read blog here...
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CBC News
Canada’s Food Guide, released last week, might have been free of industry influence, but there are two remaining elements of the Healthy Eating Strategy that have been subject to heavy input from industry. Read article here…
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CBC News – Metro Morning
Canada’s new Food Guide is a big departure from previous ones, featuring meat and dairy less prominently than in the past. The new food guide rather focuses on fruits and vegetables, whole grains, proteins, water as your drink of choice. Listen to a great interview with Nick Saul, President and CEO of Community Food Centres Canada. Read article here…
Excerpt: Re: Canada’s Food Guide – “The fact that they didn’t actually look at industry commissioned reports on nutrition: very very important. That’s not what’s happening when in comes to FOP [front-of-package] labeling and marketing to kids, which are the other two things that make up the Healthy Eating Strategy.” – Nick Saul @njsaul
Winnipeg Free Press
Amanda Nash, Registered Dietitian and the health promotion and nutrition manager for Heart & Stroke Manitoba highlights the dangers of foods and beverages high in salt, saturated fat and sugar and the need for Canada’s Health Eating Strategy. Read article here…
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UConn Rudd Centre
The UConn Rudd Center released a report that found that restaurants and food and beverage companies increasingly target Black and Hispanic youth with advertising for their least nutritious products, primarily fast food, candy, sugary drinks, and snacks. For the report, researchers used Nielsen syndicated market research data to analyze companies’ food-related TV advertising in 2017 and compared findings to data reported from 2013. Read report here…
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Chatelaine
Registered Dietitian, Cara Rosenbloom breaks down what changes to expect in Canada’s new Food Guide. The current guide was published in 2007. Read article here…
Globe and Mail
“The pushback has already prompted Health Canada to make a number of changes to proposals it put forward – including dropping a prohibition against sponsorship of children’s’ sports. Also, it will restrict ads only in TV programs where children make up a certain percentage of the audience…”
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Vancouver Sun
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