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POLITICS OF NUTRITION Lecture January 2015

Canada Domestically Take surveys and decide what to promote or Having decided what to promote take a survey to see if recommendations are being followed

Promoting Nutritional Health during the preschool years a) Enable parents and child care providers to provide a healthy diet to pre-school children: Provide a healthful variety of foods recommended in Canada’s food guide and in amounts appropriate to the needs of the individual preschooler Apply moderation

a) Enable parents and child care providers to provide a healthy diet to pre-school children: Gradual transition of milk pre-dominant foods to family foods Help pre-schoolers determine the quantity of the food they eat Allow small amounts of food all through day as is their want

a)Enable parents and child care providers to provide a healthy diet to pre-school children: Set up routine and structure in daily eating patterns Encourage healthy body weight Encourage physical activity and limit sedentary time

a)Enable parents and child care providers to provide a healthy diet to pre-school children: Consult physician when abnormal growth, development and eating patterns persist Protect against choking and food poisoning Avoid mineral and vitamin supplements

b) Help parents and child care providers to foster food attitudes and eating practices which promote health: Establish a positive feeding relationship which sets reasonable limits while supporting the development of the preschooler’s food preferences and food choice skills Make available and offer a variety of nutritious foods within the framework of the family’s cultural heritage and resources

b) Help parents and child care providers to foster food attitudes and eating practices which promote health: Offer foods appropriate to the developmental readiness of the pre-schooler to enable gradual transition from infant to family foods Identify and respond to cues from the preschooler that indicate when the child is hungry or satisfied- remember appetite varies at this age range

b) Help parents and child care providers to foster food attitudes and eating practices which promote health: Encourage self-feeding Respect choices while monitoring them Act as a role model Provide social environment that encourages enjoyment of food

b) Help parents and child care providers to foster food attitudes and eating practices which promote health: Avoid food as a control tool Allow child to learn about nature of food and to value its role in health Allow child to discuss health claims

c) Further development of programmes and policies which advance nutritional health for preschool population: Recognise that accessible affordable, personally acceptable and nutritionally adequate foods are essential to support the growth development and health of preschoolers Direct nutrition programmes to parents and preschoolers considering that economic, social or environmental deprivation or physical and mental handicaps play a role in nutrition

c) Further development programmes and policies which advance nutritional health for preschool population: Considerations in health assessment-the issues of family, community and society which are opportunities for or barriers to good nutrition Support efforts by health professionals to identify those children aged 2 years and older for major diet-related chronic diseases so that age-appropriate action may be taken to decrease risk in later life

Surveys Clinical Anthropometric Dental Dietary

Dietary surveys 24 hour recall frequency of certain foods over last month not told in advance of dietary questions- benefit children under 12 accompanied by mothers or those responsible for their meals and children 6-12 participate in the interview

Canada-foreign Canadian GMOs and Europe -frankenstein food -will create disease by altering human genome and hence viral genome or allow disease by suppressing immune response

Canadian GMOs and Europe -will alter the genome of human consumers -will lose wholesomeness of natural (original food) -hurts Canadian economy

Canada-foreign Fish-protection of cod and other fish stocks from foreign fisherman (200 mile territorial limit) -periodically foreign fishing vessels get caught in territorial waters- boats and/or fish confiscated -protection of Canada’s food supply

Fish- Ottawa versus St John’s -merging of federal versus provincial

Next lecture -Provincial/Local politics