Canada’s Heart and Stroke Foundation Just Raised the Bar

For Consumers:

• Limiting restaurant meals out
• Limiting processed foods
• A call to return to cooking from fresh, whole, ingredients

For the Federal Government:

• Adopting the HSF’s proposed sugar thresholds
• Restricting marketing of all foods and beverages to children
• Taxing sugar sweetened beverages and using funds generated therein to subsidize fruits and vegetables
• Avoiding public health partnerships with producers and suppliers of foods high in free sugars

For Provincial Governments:

• Taxing sugar sweetened beverages and using funds generated therein to subsidize fruits and vegetables.
• Adopting a Bloomberg style large cup ban (if you want to drink a litre of Coke, you’ll still be able to, you’ll just need to buy two cups)!

For Municipal Governments, Regional Health Authorities, Workplaces and Schoolboards:

• Adopting a Bloomberg style large cup ban in food service outlets
• Banning sugar-loaded beverages in recreation centres, hospitals and schools
• Ensuring potable drinking water made more readily available in parks and public facilities
• Creating zoning laws to prevent the establishment of fast food outlets and convenience stores within walking distance of schools
• Banning the practice of junk food fundraising.”

There is a very important piece to this development — this past June, HSF cut ties with unsavory industry partners.

It’s fascinating to see how, once freed from the shackles of industry partnerships, health organizations are able to provide science-based information without fear of repercussions or being silenced. Furthermore — providing the public with information that doesn’t protect industry interests sure does a lot for an organization’s reputation and public perception.

Take note, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

Read Dr. Freedhoff’s full post here: http://www.weightymatters.ca/…/canadas-heart-and-stroke-fou…