Obesity Prevention Through Support for Healthy Weights, Healthy Lives Report (Motion #33-05)

Approved on April 28, 2005, by the Sudbury & District Board of Health.

Motion

WHEREAS motion #72-03 the Sudbury & District Board of Health urged the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care to recognize the conditions of unhealthy weights as a public health epidemic that required a provincial response; and

WHEREAS in January 2005, the Board of Health received a presentation on “Healthy Weights, Healthy Lives”, the Chief Medical Officer of Health annual report on a comprehensive strategy to promote healthy weights in Ontario, and

WHEREAS in March 2005 the Association of Local Public Health Agencies urged member boards of health to pass resolutions supporting the content of and urging action on “Healthy Weights, Healthy Lives”;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Sudbury & District Board of Health endorse the 2004 Chief Medical Officer of Health Report: “Healthy Weights, Healthy Lives”; and

FURTHER THAT the Sudbury & District Board of Health urges the Government of Ontario to mobilize this report into action by developing a provincial healthy weights/nutrition strategy and to adequately resource this strategy; and

FURTHER THAT copies of this motion be forwarded to the Premier of Ontario, the Ministers of Northern Development and Mines, Health and Long-Term Care, Education, Tourism and Recreation, the Chief Medical Officer of Health, the Association of Local Public Health Agencies, the Ontario Public Health Association and municipalities within the Sudbury & District Health Unit catchment area.

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