Author and activist Anna Lappe takes on the billion-dollar business of marketing junk food, soda, and fast food to children and teens. With diet-related related illnesses alarmingly on the rise, pervasive marketing of junk food to kids is downright dangerous. The food industry says its up to parents to raise healthy kids. Lappe agrees, that’s why she says leave parenting to her–and the millions of moms and dads trying to raise healthy kids. Learn about the dubious marketing tactics of the junk food giants and the ways you can fight back to promote kids’ health. Anna Lappe is a national…

Food Company’s idea of ‘healthy’: Kraft Dinner with sweetened applesauce and Juice There is not a trip to the grocery store that doesn’t result in one of my daughter’s picking up and asking me to buy some unhealthy food product that was been creatively marketed to them through color, cartoons, and characters.  The choices are endless: Disney Princess Fruit Snacks (i.e., gummi bears), Scooby Doo cookies, Dora Spaghetti-O’s, Shrek Popsicles.  But how often do you see fresh fruits and vegetables marketed this way?  I personally have never seen a case of oranges in a Sponge Bob Square Pants case, for…

Canadians now face and seem to accept worse health, more disability and higher health costs on Canada Health Day. It is ironic that in advance of Canada Health Day (May 12th) – a day to honor and celebrate public health initiatives that help keep Canadians healthy – that the Federal Government defeated  Bill C-460 in parliament on Tuesday. If passed, Bill C-460 would have implemented an effective sodium reduction strategy, projected to save 10s of thousands of Canadian lives and hospitalizations per year and prevent hypertension in more than 2 million. In addition it was projected to save billions in…