Improving Health Outcomes gives an overview of the issues, challenges, and potential solutions for improving dietary risk management. It examines the relationship between food, health, and chronic diseases.
Document Highlights
This report examines the relationship between food, health, and chronic diseases—a key consideration for the Canadian Food Strategy being developed by Signal49 Research’s Centre for Food in Canada (CFIC). The report considers the food-related risk factors for three highly prevalent chronic diseases—cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes. It examines current and historical dietary patterns to assess Canadians’ food-related risks; assesses how well consumers, industry, and governments are managing the key dietary risks; and considers the effectiveness of interventions to encourage healthy eating. The report concludes by proposing seven potential measures that consumers, government, and industry can take to improve dietary risk management to cut the burden of chronic diseases.
