Reading Time: 4 minutes How Canada’s upper house can work across party lines and stop the marketing of junk food to kids
Author: Tom Warshawski
Tom Warshawski practices as a consultant pediatrician in Kelowna, British Columbia and is the former head of pediatrics at the Kelowna General Hospital. Dr. Warshawski is an associate clinical professor of Pediatrics with the University of British Columbia, is a member of the Heart and Stroke Foundation Compass Committee, the Medical Director for Child and Youth Health for the Interior Health Authority, and he is the current chair of the Childhood Obesity Foundation (COF). He is a past member of the Healthy Active Living committee of the Canadian Pediatric Society, a past president of the BC Pediatric Society and a past president of the Society of Specialist Physicians and Surgeons of BC.
Junk food ads bombard teens, putting them at risk
Reading Time: 3 minutes Proposed restrictions on food and beverage advertising to kids should include youth up to age 16. We need to give healthy eating habits a fighting chance