Health committee  I'm not sure of the exact date of it, but we have a meeting in early December and we are trying to put together very clear targets. And with a lot of these things, we'll need to come back to get budgets to do them. A lot of that work needs to be done. We're just finalizing what w

Health committee  Absolutely.

Health committee  I could. Certainly, media has come up. We've seen examples of a media campaign in a health region that was very good. We need to engage the experts, because that is something you have to do really well, and yes, we're certainly looking to media. The other part I need to bring

Health committee  Could I start to address this? The problem is that it's very complex. We know the effects of obesity. We could give you figures of $2 billion in health care costs that are related to obesity. It's hard to change. It's hard to get people moving. There are some foods that have few

Health committee  No.

Health committee  Finland was known as the country with the world's highest risk of cardiovascular disease. If I'm not mistaken, they had a higher salt intake than we did. Britain seems to have higher salt intake than we have. We had a national nutrition survey in 1970; our next one was in 2004. S

Health committee  I do not know the background, but we have observed this phenomenon. It's connected to what is happening in the United States. Nutritionists have opted for a daily recommended intake, because it is important to have a figure associated with every nutrient, among other things, beca

Health committee  Thank you. I'm representing the Canadian Society for Nutritional Sciences, which is soon to become the Canadian Nutrition Society. My training is in nutritional epidemiology, and I'm an associate professor at McGill. Today I'd like to cover two points, from the perspective of