We live in an OBESOGENIC

ENVIRONMENT … one that

is nutritionally toxic and

predisposes us to desire,

need, and be able to obtain

and consume energy dense,

nutrient low foods.

Cheyenne MountainIntroduction to Fast Food Nation (2001) by Eric Schlosser

Cheyenne MountainKey Points YOU Made from Reading …

Fast food is everywhere. It is inescapable. It is around every corner and consuming it has become routine for us.

Years from now scientists will find out our diets were not really healthy at all.

Even though Cheyenne Mountain was created to help sustain life during a nuclear attack or Armageddon, we are still killing ourselves with fast food.

We spend more money on fast food now than on education, cars, computers, electronics, books, magazines, videos, etc.

A nation’s diet can be more revealing that its art or literature.

Will FAST FOOD really be the only

thing our generation will be known for??

“Combating obesity is the

challenge for the 21st century

the same way that battling

smoking was the challenge

for public health authorities

in the 20th century.” Jim Watson, Ontario

Minister of Health (2005)

The number of overweight

and obese Canadians now

poses one of the greatest

threats ever to public

health in Canada.

“The prevalence of this serious health

risk is almost exactly what we faced

with tobacco use 30 years ago when

half of Canadians smoked. Since that

time, smoking rates have dropped by

half -- but during those same three

decades, we’ve been losing ground in

the area of overweight and obesity.” Dr. Anthony Graham, Heart and Stroke Foundation

Report Card on Canadian’s Health

Rates Among Canadian Adults % Change

Smoking (Aged 15+) 53% decrease

Overweight (BMI>25; Aged 20-64) 18% increase

Obese (BMI>30; Aged 20-64) 50% increase

Overweight & Smoking from 1970s to 2000s

Who Canadians Believe is ResponsibleWho do Canadians believe is

responsible?% of Canadians

Individual Responsibility 54%

Government 18%

Food industry 2%

On October 23, 2012, the Ontario

Medical Association (OMA)

launched an assault on obesity,

saying society should

aggressively fight the epidemic

using the tools that have made

major inroads in the battle

against smoking.

The elements of the strategy include:

increasing taxes on junk food and decreasing tax on healthy foods;

restricting marketing of fatty and sugary foods to children;

Prominently advertising health risks on retail displays of high-sugar, high-fat foods;

restricting the availability of sugary, low-nutritional value foods in sports and other recreational facilities that are frequented by young people;

and …

The elements of the strategy include:

placing graphic warning labels on pop and other high-calorie foods with little to no nutritional value

Your TURN!!!

Create a WARNING LABEL

that would appear on a

fast food package,

beverage container or

other high calorie food

with little to no

nutritional value warning

Canadians of the

associated health risks.

What might that LOOK like?

“There is no question that the anti-tobacco

strategy of the past 20 years has been

effective.

Society needs to start addressing obesity or it

will face epidemic levels of weight-induced

illnesses, including Type 2 diabetes, heart

disease and some cancers.

If we don’t do something about this now, we’re

going to have a tidal wave of the consequences

of those conditions.” -- Dr. Doug Weir, president of the Ontario Medical

Association