- Title
- Legal interventions to address obesity: assessing the state of the law in Canada
- Creator
- Ries, Nola M.; von Tigerstrom, Barbara
- Relation
- UBC Law Review Vol. 43, Issue 2, p. 361-416
- Relation
- http://ubclawreview.ca/issues/43-2/
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- Over the past decade, public health experts have raised the alarm over the expanding number of people in countries around the world who are overweight and obese. Canada is no exception: approximately 60 per cent of Canadian adults and 35 per cent of children are overweight or obese. Obesity, in particular, is associated with higher rates of diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and some cancers. The medical, economic, and social consequences of these rates of overweight and obesity, especially among children, have caught the attention of our governments. In the last several years, various provincial and federal committees have produced detailed reports on obesity, which can be stacked alongside similar reports issued by ocher countries, as well as those from international bodies such as the World Health Organization. These reports are uniform in their calls for coordinated and comprehensive measures-including legal interventions-to promote healthier diets and more physical activity. Although a growing body of literature explores law as a tool to control factors associated with obesity, existing analyses focus predominantly on the legal and cultural context of the United States.' Our objective in this article is to provide a systematic analysis of the use of legal interventions to address obesity in Canada.
- Subject
- obesity; legal interventions; Canada
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1058216
- Identifier
- uon:16362
- Identifier
- ISSN:0068-1849
- Language
- eng
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