Health committee  I'll just add one comment, and I will defer to Dr. Lamarche, as well, if he wants to speak to the nuances of the DASH diet. For sure, we certainly have evidence through the U.S. National Academy of Medicine and many other international—

Health committee  No problem, it's just that other international organizations have definitely recommended.... There is a relationship between low sodium consumption and health.

Health committee  Ultra-processed foods are foods that really don't resemble their original state anymore. For example, if you take a piece of chicken, add additives, process it, add emulsifiers, etc., you end up with chicken nuggets. Chicken nuggets are ultra-processed foods. They contain really

Health committee  Thanks for the opportunity to testify today. In my role as the director of health policy and advocacy at Heart and Stroke, my team and I have had the pleasure of engaging with many of you at this committee one-on-one on the subject of Canada's healthy eating strategy. We apprec

Finance committee  A sugary drink levy could be used, as I mentioned, for a number of initiatives. It could create an indigenous health fund, for example, which could promote traditional foods. Also, as I indicated in my presentation, it could help with greenhouse technologies and other innovative

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and honourable members. The Heart and Stroke Foundation is a national volunteer-based charity led and supported by more than 125,000 volunteers across the country and close to two million donors. We have a presence in every community across the country from

Finance committee  As with anything, and I would use the example of tobacco control, it's a multi-pronged approach that works. Yes, public awareness and public education are important, and that's an important starting point. As well, we have to make sure that the environment we live in makes the

Finance committee  For heart disease and stroke, nutrition and physical activity are both equally important. For obesity, it's a bit more on the nutrition side, because if you're overeating, it's very difficult to compensate with physical activity.

Finance committee  You're absolutely correct. Both are important. Here is a very important incentive to increase physical activity. It has actually been raised indirectly here by a couple of folks. The issue actually relates to shovel-smart infrastructure investments. This was mentioned a little e

Finance committee  That's a very good question. What we've learned in the past is that businesses have to innovate all the time. They have to change their product lines in response to new consumer demand or a changing business environment, etc. The reality of the matter is that with changing consu

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and honourable members. The Heart and Stroke Foundation is a national volunteer-based charity, led and supported by more than 125,000 volunteers across the country and close to two million donors. The aim of the foundation is to create healthy lives free of

Health committee  Well, it is possible. I would just make mention of one fact related to testing. You're right that with self reports, if you just ask someone through a survey whether they're smoking e-cigarettes or not, it's not going to be as reliable as other methods. If you interview a person

Health committee  Yes, and also for example with cigarettes, there is testing that can be done to determine if someone actually has had nicotine and has been smoking. Something could be developed with e-cigarettes as well, in terms of research that could help the research to be more accurate.

Health committee  I'll add a point. Obviously we don't have all the answers now, but the situation is of such concern that we think regulation should go ahead in an expedited fashion and then, as more research comes in, those regulations could be tweaked and adjusted as necessary, but we think we

Health committee  Just to add to that as well, I take your point, and we don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater, so to speak. There are some good nicotine replacement therapies today. Perhaps they're not as effective as we would like them to be. Because you can hold a cigarette and