Health committee  From the Canadian Paediatric Society's perspective, it's one reasonable approach to tackling this particular problem. Trans fats are well known to be a major problem, no question. Not only do they raise unhealthy cholesterol, they also lower healthy cholesterol. We are not in fa

Health committee  You know, we don't have to go to Massachusetts to realize that we're cutting back on physical activity opportunities for children. Was it not perhaps last year that kids couldn't play road hockey? I think there are many examples of how we as adults are actually cramping the style

Health committee  When we talk about dealing with children with regard to the types of foods they eat and the activity they take part in, there's a lot of focus on wearing a pedometer and the number of steps a day and burning off a certain number of calories and not eating so many calories. I thin

Health committee  First, we are aware of that program. I think you have to be cognizant that in any program that's tasked to deal with obesity in childhood--and probably the Sierras program is a little better than the most heavily touted research program, which has a success rate of about 45%--onc

Health committee  In terms of making an obese young girl or obese young boy turn into an anorexia nervosa...it's true that there certainly is a spectrum of research groups out there that are concerned about the possibility that obesity is part of a spectrum of eating disorders. I think that is a v

Health committee  Thank you very much. On behalf of the Canadian Paediatric Society, I really want to applaud all of you for being here today to take the opportunity to listen to me, a pediatrician; my society, which acts on behalf of children; and my colleagues at the Canadian Medical Associatio