We can do better . The model based on Physical Activity Only is in need of an overhaul and I think we need to be more inclusive whith regard to the obesity issue. Paul Murphy
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"Celebrity Chef and Sobeys pitch-man, Jamie Oliver, is nudging the new
Liberal Government to do better on child nutrition and food labelling:
http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/2015/10/29/jamie-oliver-wants-justin-trudeau-to-focus-on-child-nutrition.html
It is timely advice to Prime Minister Designate Trudeau as he prepares
to give his new ministers of health and finance their marching orders.
The previous Conservative government, by the end, acknowledged the
huge human and economic toll of diet-related disease but never
mustered the political will to implement foreseeably effective new
regulations and programs to help make Canadians, especially children,
be healthier. The former government seemed too unwilling to speak
truth to the powerful food industry.
It is not clear if the mandate letters for the soon-to-be-be named 25
cabinet Ministers will be published (as Ontario, BC, and NB liberal
counterparts have done recently) or remain cabinet secrets in the long
tradition of opaque federal governance.
There is much to commend in the Liberal Government election platform.
See our synopsis issued after the polls closed:
http://cspinet.org/canada/pdf/federal-election.2015.public-health-nutrition.pdf
I look forward to working with new government to ensure that the broad
ideas set out in its Platform are converted into effective public
health laws, policies and programs.
-Bill Jeffery
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Bill Jeffery, LLB, National Coordinator
Centre for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)"
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