Myös Yoni Freedhoff kirjoittaa Kanadan sydänsäätiön kannanotosta, joka sisältää toimenpide-ehdotuksia monille muillekin tahoille julkisen vallan lisäksi:
For Consumers:
•Limiting restaurant meals out
•Limiting processed foods
•A call to return to cooking from fresh, whole, ingredients
For the Federal Government:
•Adopting the HSF's proposed sugar thresholds
•Restricting marketing of all foods and beverages to children
•Taxing sugar sweetened beverages and using funds generated therein to subsidize fruits and vegetables
•Avoiding public health partnerships with producers and suppliers of foods high in free sugars
For Provincial Governments:
•Taxing sugar sweetened beverages and using funds generated therein to subsidize fruits and vegetables.
•Adopting a Bloomberg style large cup ban (if you want to drink a litre of Coke, you'll still be able to, you'll just need to buy two cups)!
For Municipal Governments, Regional Health Authorities, Workplaces and
Schoolboards•Adopting a Bloomberg style large cup ban in food service outlets
•Banning sugar-loaded beverages in recreation centres, hospitals and schools
•Ensuring potable drinking water made more readily available in parks and public facilities
•Creating zoning laws to prevent the establishment of fast food outlets and convenience stores within walking distance of schools
•Banning the practice of junk food fundraising.
The only thing missing from these recommendations (though it's certainly implied), is a direct call to action for the overhaul of Canada's 2007 Food Guide and with it the Guide's inclusion of free sugar limits, and the removal of the Guide's inane recommendation that half a cup of sugar water with vitamins (juice) is a fruit serving equivalent.
Whether or not you agree with the HSF's recommendations, one thing's incredibly clear, the HSF is no longer the food industry's partner - and that news is tremendous for Canadians as it's amazing how forceful and broad-sweeping public health organizations' recommendations can be when there's no worry about upsetting industry partners.