I think we need to have a huge campaign to change the huge anxiety around eating and nutrition and helping youth, especially young children. The increase in eating disorders in young children is coming out of the fact that there are a lot of very compliant, self-conscious, perfectionistic, anxious little girls who are trying to be very, very good, and avoiding all the bad foods.
Many of them get to the point where they're hospitalized for medical instability because they're only eating vegetables because they've heard so many messages about the bad foods: the fats, the sodium, and the sugar.
We somehow need to create an atmosphere that's more about moderation and balance that applies to everybody. We also need to figure out how to treat obesity without causing eating disorders because for all of the patients who are getting the messages about the need to diet and watch your eating and all of that, they're creating a whole bunch of young patients who are coming into our hospital terrified of eating, terrified of gaining weight.
Another huge issue is the toxic atmosphere in our high schools across Canada and the emphasis on appearance. I cut some things out of my long talk but one of them was regarding the “hot or not” app that you can get for your iPhone where you post photos of girls and rate them, or the Kate Moss pillow that you can order for $16 on the Internet that has embroidered on it the words “Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels”. There are all sorts of things on the Internet—