Monday, November 4, 2013

The Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation Health Check Program has lost its way …

They have been putting their stamp of “goodness” on more and more sugar laced foods. It seems that their motivation is purely monetary, since there are products that they endorse whose calorie count is 96% sugar, such as the subject of the video below by Joni Freedhoff, head of the non-surgical bariatric unit at the Ottawa Hospital.

Registered Dieticians are supposed to be sensitive to sugar, as there is a diabetes type II emergency in Canada and in fact world wide. Yet they continue to endorse this.

The penalty we will all pay for the insidious nature of the relationships with big food is the continued declining health of our population as these children – who will grow up thinking that candy is fruit – become diabetic even earlier than previous generations, who at least knew how harmful sugar was …