By Josh Hoffman @JoNoHoffman Country 95 @Country95

Lethbridge Can Encourage Healthy Diet

Feb 6, 2016 | 5:22 AM

LETHBRIDGE: Cities like Lethbridge can create policies to limit the access youth have to unhealthy foods.

So says Calgary doctor Norm Campbell who was in Lethbridge this week with his presentation “Death By Food: The Need For Public Health Policy Through a Blood Pressure Lens.”

Campbell wants governments to create an environment where it is easy for people to eat healthy as the number one cause for death and disability in Canada is an unhealthy diet.

“You’d say ‘What can Lethbrdige do about this?’ Well putting regulations in place about what sort of establishments can be put around schools or Rec centres where children play and learn”.

Campbell says 65,000 Canadians, the equivalent to two-thirds of Lethbridge’s population, die each year because of an unhealthy diet causing illness linked to high blood pressure, cancer, diabetes and obesity. 

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He believes governments do more to help industry instead of protecting Canadians and that needs to change. 

He also adds the modern Canadian diet relies too much on restaurants and packaged foods that have large amounts of salts, sugar, saturated and trans fats. 

“And they’re very deficient in other things like potassium, fibre and calcium. So we are eating these incredibly unbalanced diets that are causing hyper-tension, diabetes, and obesity that are leading to death and disability.”