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Experts from CIHR available to shed-light on Canada's revised Food Guide
ATTENTION: Assignment editors, health, research and science reporters
For immediate release--
OTTAWA (February 5, 2007) - Individual, social, cultural and environmental factors affect what we eat. These influences, changing demographics in the Canadian population, as well as the best available evidence, have all been taken in account in preparing the new Canadian Food Guide. As Health Canada releases the new Food Guide today, experts from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) are available to help us better understand the evidence behind Canada's Food Guide and its role in helping Canadians eat a healthy diet as part of an overall healthy lifestyle.
The obesity pandemic, its complexity and the Food Guide as a useful tool for the overall populationDr. Diane Finegood, based in Vancouver and Scientific Director of the CIHR Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes
Public health perspective on the Food GuideErica Di Ruggiero, based in Toronto and Associate Director of the CIHR Institute of Population and Public Health
CIHR-funded researchers on Health Canada's Advisory Committee on Dietary Reference Intakes
Dietary assessment, women's health, food security and nutrition policyTheresa Glanville, Professor, Department of Applied Human Nutrition, Mount Saint Vincent University (Halifax)
Dietary surveys and dietary assessment methodologyKatherine Gray-Donald, Associate Professor, School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, McGill University (Montréal)
Income, food security issues and dietary assessment Valerie Tarasuk, Professor, Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto (Toronto)
Nutrition and children's healthStanley H. Zlotkin, Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto (Toronto)
Nutrition, physical activity and women's healthDr. Susan Barr, Professor of Nutrition at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver)
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The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) is the Government of Canada's agency for health research. CIHR's mission is to create new scientific knowledge and to catalyze its translation into improved health, more effective health services and products, and a strengthened Canadian health care system. Composed of 13 Institutes, CIHR provides leadership and support to more than 10,000 health researchers and trainees across Canada. http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/
For an interview, please contact:
David CoulombeCIHR Media Specialist Office: 613-941-4563 Mobile: 613-808-7526E-mail: mediarelations@cihr-irsc.gc.ca
