UBC pediatrics professor Tom Warshawski co-wrote an op-ed for the Ottawa Citizen about the need to ban food advertising to children.
Warshawski wrote the article with Mary Lewis, the Heart and Stroke Foundation’s vice-president of research, advocacy and health promotion.
“We applaud Sen. Nancy Greene Raine for her introduction last week of a bill in the Senate to prohibit the advertising of all food and beverages to children age 12 and under. We would prefer the senator’s bill would apply to children and youth 16 years and younger, but her proposal is a very good start,” they wrote.
