Health committee  You've given me the opportunity to segue to something that is near and dear to my heart, and that is the hidden ingredients in things. In a committee hearing room on Parliament Hill, there's a coffee pot at the back of the room, and a group of adults can decide whether they wis

Health committee  I think I just named several of them. I didn't use brand names, but vitamin drinks, energy drinks, and all of these sport drinks out there have hidden ingredients in them. There's a huge market of things people think are healthy, because they're marketed to that image, the image

Health committee  My point is that there are many products of this sort that are marketed as though they were good for you and that are not good for you. You made the point that moderation is key. A 12-year-old boy who's going to the store and buying a bottle of ersatz flavoured drink with jazz i

Health committee  I think hidden in your question is more than just interprofessional collaboration. I absolutely agree with what Barb just said. The key to this is not just the health professionals—even broadly written, if we include coaches and people like that as health professionals. It's much

Health committee  Some of the infrastructure costs—and I'm going to steal some thunder from the speakers beside me.... We don't have to go out and build new things; we have to teach people to use the things they have. There are walking programs in my community, in every single shopping mall in Sas

Health committee  I've always been someone who, faced with someone telling me I can't do something, will find it's the only stimulus I need to make me turn around and do it. I would encourage all of you at the committee level to take that challenge. Just because there are powerful lobbies out th

Health committee  I'm sorry, Mr. Dosanjh, that is far beyond my capabilities as a family physician. I personally have not costed it, no.

Health committee  I'm not sure if that was directed at me, but it seemed to be. I think you're right that the actions occur at the individual level, at the grassroots level. But I think the regulatory framework, the authority to cause things to go in the direction they need to go in, has to be at

Health committee  We used to say an apple a day keeps the doctor away. What I think we need to say now is if you can't read it and you can't pronounce it, then don't eat it.

Health committee  I think part of the barrier is that we have forgotten—and several of my colleagues around the table today have made the point—the difference between physical activity and physical education, the difference between active play and active transportation and some kind of thing out t

Health committee  I don't think we have specifically communicated that. I'm looking at my staff members and Public Health staff on that; I'm not sure that we have specifically communicated this. It's an initiative that we're aware of that is happening in another country and we bring it forward as

Health committee  When I'm saying literacy, I don't just mean reading. I mean literacy in the largest sense of that word: at a level so that people can understand the information. I mean literacy so that we can make the information very user-friendly and very useful to them in their everyday lives

Health committee  Yes, the U.K. I'm not aware of it being in use anywhere else. Most of the other nutritional labelling that I've seen is narrative and very dense. Even I can't understand most of it.

Health committee  Thank you for that question. The idea is that some of the nutrition labelling information currently provided on packaging is perhaps a little difficult to understand. Providing people with information that says that this meets 12% of your recommended daily allowance for X nutri

Health committee  Since you named me in the preface to your question, perhaps I'll take the prerogative of speaking first in response. A number of the things that you've said, Ms. Duncan, are echoes of what I said in the presentation. The specific strategies, whether it be a national breakfast pr