Health committee  I want to mention another example that we're aware of. It's been developed with the Concerned Children's Advertisers group and Gogoyou, a game that works with adolescent girls, I think, in a number of aboriginal communities in Ontario. It apparently has been very successful. It's

Health committee  Sure, I'll start. We mentioned earlier that one of the challenges is the plethora of stuff out there and not knowing whether it's worthwhile or not. I know lots of people who've used certain apps for physical fitness. They use them for a few weeks and then get bored with them.

Health committee  I'm not sure I can give you a percentage, but I think we do have to remember that people are social beings and we still need to interact with other people. One of the most effective things I have seen in workplace health is that somebody decides that they're going to go for a wal

Health committee  I think there's a lot of potential that we have not yet explored. Certainly there's the example we're hearing today and I've heard of others in terms of workplace health. In terms of helping to inform people and to engage them in new ways, and particularly with younger generati

Health committee  I want to add one point. There's a lot of innovation going on in the provinces and territories, with the support of provincial governments and NGOs. One of the areas where the federal government can be very helpful is in taking those best practices, scaling them up, and spreading

Health committee  First of all, we'd like things to be evidence based. If you're going to be promoting apps or technologies, they should have some evidence behind them that they're actually going to work and that they're effective. We need to do more in that area. That's where I think the federa

Health committee  I have a comment on the FDA. It is quite a new thing, as I understand it, for the FDA to get involved in the regulation of mobile and medical technology. It was only just over a year ago, I think, that they went through a consultation process and sent out the drafts for everyth

Health committee  I may be a little heretical, but quite honestly I don't think this is the answer to everything. I still think we have to have a whole variety of strategies. Certainly at the BC Healthy Living Alliance we've done all these programs with low-income groups and have had a lot of expe

Health committee  I will start, and I'm sure others will want to chime in because it has been an interesting array of good examples. We touched on that in our presentation. We think there is a need for a mechanism, I guess you could say for quality control verification, so people have a way of kn

Health committee  Yes. This is it. We want future generations to keep healthy and avoid chronic disease.

Health committee  Obviously, you need all the backup to do that, but I think that's going to come. It's probably an application that we'll eventually see. To date, knowledge about diet and nutrition, and cancer and chronic disease prevention has been very slow to move into the mainstream practice

Health committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chair, and members of the committee. We're very pleased to be here from the Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance of Canada. I'm Mary Collins. I'm the chair of the alliance, and Craig Larsen is the executive director. We're going to give a general vi