Ontario Addresses Obesity -Garden Hill Bans Junk Food From Arena

         Just a thought  on Physical Activity and Childhood Health.  Ontario appears to offer Bariatric Surgery and Running shoes to address  obesity. At what point  will we witness an actual intervention on the food environment?  Garden Hill First Nation has banned Junk Food  and Mexico has implemented a Soda Tax.   I am curious as to why we are unable to have a conversation about the Food Environment and the layers upon layers  of dialogue needed  to dissect this complex issue. ?    Our children ,your children deserve  every opportunity to protect thier health.  If you want to see the food environment in Canada  -go to your local drug store .  Do you think you can outrun a lousy Food Environment ?

 Garden Hill Below:

 http://obesitythunderbay4health.blogspot.ca/2015/11/garden-hill-first-nation-replaces.html
 One of the poorest nations  has decided to take on Big Soda .

     Canada has  turned over every single stone  and blade of grass  with regard to  attacking Tobacco usage , but when it comes to  creating real change and real opportunity  to address Health and Health Equity  it  seems to have another agenda.     Paul Murphy 

 

http://www.tbnewswatch.com/Artsentertainment/377084/Provincial_program_aims_to_fight_childhood_obesity

 

 http://www.health.gov.on.ca/en/ms/bariatric/public/default.aspx

 

Ontario Bariatric Network

The Ontario Bariatric Network currently consists of:

• Four Bariatric Centres of Excellence, (which contain a surgical centre and a Regional Assessment and Treatment Centre)
• Two stand-alone Regional Assessment and Treatment Centres, and
• A Pediatric Regional Assessment and Treatment Centre.

Centres of Excellence
The four Centres of Excellence provide pre and post-bariatric surgical care, counselling, referral and weight loss treatment delivered by a multi-disciplinary health care team consisting of physicians, nurses, dieticians, social workers, kinesiologists and mental health workers.

• Hamilton Bariatric Centre of Excellence
  • St Joseph’s HealthCare Hamilton
  • Hamilton Health Sciences (Pediatric Regional Assessment and Treatment Centre)
• University of Toronto Collaborative Bariatric Surgery Program
  • Humber River Regional Hospital
  • St. Joseph’s Health Centre
  • Toronto East General Hospital
  • St. Michael’s Hospital
  • The Hospital for Sick Children (Pediatric Regional Assessment and Treatment Centre)
  • University Health Network’s Toronto Western Hospital site
• Guelph General Hospital
• The Ottawa Hospital

Regional Assessment and Treatment Centres
Windsor Regional Hospital was named as the first bariatric Regional Assessment and Treatment Centre and a second centre has opened at Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre. It’s anticipated that there will be a number of these centres located across the province based on community need and population. The centres will involve a multi-disciplinary team of bariatric experts (physician, nurse, dietitian, social worker, and pharmacist) and refer patients to the appropriate treatment (surgery, psychiatric counselling, and/or drug therapy).
Pediatric Regional Assessment and Treatment Centre
The Hospital for Sick Children is being named as the first Pediatric Regional Assessment and Treatment Centre. The centre will treat children with complex severe obesity through family-centred, tertiary, interdisciplinary treatment, care coordination and, only where appropriate, bariatric surgery. The interdisciplinary team includes a pediatric endocrinologist, key worker, psychologist, social worker, exercise physiologist, dietician and clinic/research clerk.
Go to the Ontario Bariatric Network website
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