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File photo of Canada’s chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam at a news conference in Ottawa on April 9, 2020. (Photo: Reuters/Blair Gable)

Tam concerned over alcohol, junk food use during pandemic

By David Ljunggren, GFM Network News June 8, 2020

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada’s top health officer on Sunday expressed concern over higher consumption of alcohol and junk food during the coronavirus epidemic, suggesting this could be a sign of worsening mental health. The total number of Canadians killed by the coronavirus edged up by 0.9 per cent to 7,773 from 7,703 on Saturday,

Food processing has made significant contributions to society’s food systems, one being that our desired foods are available year round.

Farmit Manitoba, Opinion, Other

Opinion: In defence of ‘ultra-processed’ foods

There’s more than a whiff of classism, and even sexism, in smug criticism of this maligned food type

By Sylvain Charlebois August 19, 2019

Ultra-processed foods, a term coined by a Brazilian pediatrician many years ago, have been targeted as a menace to society for quite some time. Few have dared to counter the argument and this massive movement has clearly influenced policies around the world. However, the socio-economic implications of discouraging consumers to interact with these products have

Opinion

Opinion: A prescription for the obesity epidemic

By Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs Science and Technology March 22, 2016

Excerpts from the introduction to “Obesity in Canada — A Whole-of-Society Approach for a Healthier Canada,” a report issued this month by the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology. There is an obesity crisis in this country. Canadians are paying for it with their wallets — and with their lives. But there

Local news

Roadways are cleaner now, thanks to 4-H clubs

Kids who pick up litter are far less likely  to toss their own trash

By Lorraine Stevenson May 29, 2015

Manitoba’s roadways are a lot cleaner this week, thanks to hundreds of young 4-H club members who donned gloves, boots and high-visibility vests and set to work last Saturday morning with supervising parents and adult volunteers to gather up garbage in the ditches. It’s an ‘ew-yuck’ sort of job, but the young folk taking part

Opinion

The Ambassador’s Cheerios

By Ronald Doering June 2, 2011

David Jacobson, U.S. ambassador to Canada, gave this year’s Fulbright Lecture at McGill University on Canada-U. S. relations. He used the occasion to argue that the two countries should sit down together and negotiate greater regulatory harmonization, especially in areas such as food standards. He illustrated his point by making fun of the “unnecessary” differences

Dairy cattle, Opinion

Food Fortification: Still Looking For The Sweet Spot

By Ronald Doering May 19, 2011

Canada has one of the most restrictive discretionary food fortification laws in the western world. Health Canada officials spent the last 15 years trying to develop a comprehensive new policy to allow food companies greater scope for adding vitamins and minerals to their food products. But last year the health minister stopped the proposed new

Crops

Liberal MP Calls For National School Breakfast Program

By Alex Binkley February 10, 2011

Canada needs a national school breakfast program to ensure kids can pay attention in class and learn to their potential, says Liberal MP Kirsty Duncan. “Canada is the only industrialized country without such a program,” the Ontario MP told the Commons health committee. “If kids are hungry, they can’t learn.” Such programs are highly effective,

News

Northern food insecurity

“We see a very, very bad and a very, very big problem,” Uche Nwankwo, Intern Professor at the Natural Resources Institute

By Lorraine Stevenson June 17, 2010

Hunger haunts three out of four households in northern Manitoba with some families going entire days without food, new research has found. Last summer a team of researchers from the University of Manitoba’s Natural Resources Centre surveyed 473 households in 14 communities across Manitoba’s north. They found a 75 per cent incidence of household food

Crops

Food Makers Support More U. S. Control Of School Food

April 1, 2010

Four major food and beverage makers announced support March 18 for legislation expanding U. S. control over snacks sold at schools and allowing the government to ban junk food from campuses. It would be the first crackdown on school snacks in three decades but the compromi se stops short of proposals, made in the past,

News

Boost Lunch But Cut Junk Food: U. S. Senator

By Charles Abbott March 25, 2010

The U. S. government would launch an all-out ban on selling junk food at school under a key Senate chairman’s proposal, but funding for school lunch and child nutrition programs would grow by only half as much as the White House proposed. Senator Blanche Lincoln, chairman of the Agriculture Committee, proposed a $4.5-billion increase over

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Tag Archives junk food

Tam concerned over alcohol, junk food use during pandemic

Opinion: In defence of ‘ultra-processed’ foods

Roadways are cleaner now, thanks to 4-H clubs

The Ambassador’s Cheerios

Food Fortification: Still Looking For The Sweet Spot

Liberal MP Calls For National School Breakfast Program

Northern food insecurity

Food Makers Support More U. S. Control Of School Food

Boost Lunch But Cut Junk Food: U. S. Senator

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