Health committee  No, there is certainly a strong relationship. There's a strong family resemblance in diet and physical activity, not only genetically but in the shared household environment. We really have to start at home for that type of thing. There's definitely a high degree of correlation,

Health committee  I'd like to add to those comments and say, regarding a healthy school environment, that it's just criminal that we're sitting around debating the merits of physical activity or healthy diets in the schools and there are people up in arms about the government getting in their face

Health committee  I could try that. It's such a complex issue. There are stages of change theory and what makes people want to take up physical activity. Where they are in the cycle will depend on how you approach that person to engage them in physical activity. Now, this is the area of health

Health committee  Thank you for the invitation to be here. I'm an obesity researcher. I'm an epidemiologist. I've been working for about 15 years in the area of obesity in Canada doing similar studies to what you've just heard about, in other words, tracking prevalences of obesity over time as we