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Nutrition: Taking Decisive Action to Address This Major Public Health Challenge [Interview].
For Que Choisir, there are two key priorities: regulating food advertising aimed at children and requiring the industry to meet ambitious goals for improving nutritional quality.
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Sexual health: It will take a strong mobilization effort to turn intentions into action.
As defined by the World Health Organization (WHO), sexual health is a state of well-being and requires a positive and respectful approach. The new health law creates a framework...
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Consumption Rooms: A Long-Standing Approach to Harm Reduction [Interview].
Safer consumption rooms are the result of a pragmatic approach that has already been widely implemented and evaluated internationally. They are part of the long-standing process of harm...
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A nutrition education tool for people in vulnerable situations.
The Alimentation Atout Prix tool is used by social workers in their work—from cooking workshops to community gardens and food assistance programs. It is set to undergo an update and modernization.
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Television food advertisements targeting children: parents’ views on their impact and a potential ban.
Introduction: Children’s widespread exposure to advertisements for foods of low nutritional value, combined with rising obesity rates, has led to growing support for advertising...
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Alcohol consumption in France in 2014.
Data from the Health Barometer provide insights into changes in French people’s attitudes toward alcohol and their perceptions of it. In 2014, drinking frequency remained relatively...
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Food for the Most Vulnerable: What the National Nutrition and Health Plan Envisages.
The 2006–2010 National Nutrition and Health Program (PNNS 2) includes a component focused on ensuring access to adequate food for the most disadvantaged.
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Food environment: current state of knowledge in the United States and Canada
Why is obesity on the rise in the United States and Canada? A team of researchers from Quebec specializing in this issue points out that several factors are at play: the individual and...
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Record Study: What Is the Connection Between Weight, Physical Activity, and the Urban Environment?
The Record study measures social and regional disparities in the Île-de-France region, focusing on individual neighborhoods. Its initial findings show that, even among people with the...
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What role have nonprofit organizations played in the history of food aid?
Food aid is a last resort among the various forms of support provided to the poor. Through public policies—sometimes "punitive," sometimes "charitable"—the government has consistently...