Health committee  I agree. The information must be as objective as possible. A table containing nutritional values is objective. If we want to compare different foods, you need to work from a baseline. I was reading a recent article that said that, when you give people time to understand labels a

Health committee  The example you gave really shows that food behaviour is social behaviour. When you go to the movies, you do not necessarily think of drinking a big glass of water. When you go to the movies, you usually end up buying popcorn and a soft drink. They go together. It is important to

Health committee  Few studies have specifically addressed this issue. There were some studies in the United States, or perhaps it was in Germany; it does not matter. If I recall correctly, one study in particular showed that adding a health claim to a product influenced the decision for about 10%

Health committee  Those initiatives may be useful because they provide information. However, the problem is that there is no standardization. It is done on a voluntary basis. Some may decide to use a logo and others not, which can create disparities between certain foods. A food item with a logo

Health committee  I think that the Canada Food Guide is the basic tool that provides consumers with the information to make balanced food choices. I'm sorry for answering in French.

Health committee  We also need to consider frequency. And consumers need to be educated to a certain extent. That said, I think that food is being increasingly intellectualized: everything is being calculated and people are trying to control everything. Generally speaking, people have a good idea

Health committee  My impression is that this change goes beyond labels. It is more of a change in the product itself. The industry needs new ways to reformulate food. We can also work on the quantity of salt already in food. We can see that the salt content is extremely high, but what other choice

Health committee  The food label serves to inform consumers, but, when we want to decrease or increase the consumption of certain nutrients, dietary fibre, for example, I believe that this issue is the formulation of the products. I agree that we should put all these things clearly on the label, b

Health committee  In fact, current studies show that people who say they read food labels also say that they have better food habits. However, I want to emphasize the word “say”. They say that they are concerned with their food and that they read the labels, but when they draw up a list of what th

Health committee  This is a good question. Actually, it is true that it is difficult because, once again, we are classifying food by dividing what is good for our health from what is not. To some extent, that is actually the danger in wanting to put too many labels on things, to put foods that see

Health committee  In fact, I think that that could create confusion in a way. For example, when we mention "low fat" or "no trans fats", it basically indicates a positive quality in the food. However, if we put the same label on food that is higher in calorie content, such as cookies or other kind

Health committee  Good afternoon and thank you for inviting me. To begin with, let me simply say that, in people's minds, healthy food is certainly one of the factors that are increasingly influencing people's dietary choices and that the food label is the source of information that people use to