Jamie Oliver | The Globe and Mail
“To take personal responsibility you need two things: truth and choice. That means the right information to make informed decisions about what you eat – and the right access, to choose the good stuff when you want it.
Globe and Mail
At Etobicoke’s Thistletown Collegiate, students learn about healthy eating by growing and cooking their own food.
The most frequent legislative proposals that aim to do this – limits on junk food advertisements aimed at children and taxes on sugar or soda – are consistently blocked by both a libertarian objection to government intervention and the highly financed lobbying wings of the advertising and sugar industries.
While these two approaches seek to forbid negative behaviour, teaching kids about food helps them make healthier eating choices. If sugar taxes and advertising bans are the stick, then the carrot is teaching children to cook. Read full article…
Hill Times
Sen. Nancy Greene Raine, centre, holds a press conference in Ottawa on Sept. 28, 2016, after introducing Bill S-228, the Child Health Protection Act, with Manuel Arango, director of health policy and advocacy at the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, and Corinne Voyer, director of Coalition québécoise sur la problématique du poids.
With her bill having passed the Senate last week, Conservative Senator Nancy Greene Raine is now casting about for an MP in the House to champion her legislation banning the advertising of unhealthy food and drinks to children under the age of 17. Bill S-228, the Child Health Protection Act, seeks to change the Food and Drugs Act in an effort to fight childhood obesity by limiting the exposure children have to the marketing of certain foods and… Read full article…
CBC News
Children influenced by advertising for unhealthy food and drinks.
Most children and teens shouldn’t consume sports and energy drinks, and the products should no longer be marketed to them, the Canadian Paediatric Society says.
In a new position statement released Tuesday, the society said sports drinks are high in sugar, which contributes to the obesity epidemic as well as dental cavities. Read full article…
CBC News
Studies have shown that kids may be exposed to as many as 1000 ads a year on television from fast food chains. Each child … In fight over ads aimed at kids, retailers and food makers count on Trudeau’s ‘evidence–based policy‘ promise … WATCH: Where’s the evidence linking junk food ads to obesity. Read full article…
Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon states government will “take forward a new strategy to tackle obesity, including measures to restrict the marketing of foods that are high in fat, sugar or salt”. Read more…
The Tyee
In response to the recent comment by the Association of Canadian Advertisers, a new op-ed published in The Tyee does an excellent job debunking and countering many of their claims, urges that we stay strong in our advocacy efforts, and mentions the Stop M2K Coalition, urging Canadians to send a letter supporting M2K restrictions to their MP. Read the OpEd…
Vancouver Sun
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