77.10 Nutrition Canada
Whereas, ‘Nutrition Canada’ a national survey undertaken for the federal Department of Health and Welfare, released in November 1973, and the provincial publications released in 1975 have documented several basic findings relating to the state of Canadian health:
- Continuing lack of public awareness, interest and knowledge concerning nutrition and physical fitness;
- A widespread lack of communication, co-operation and co-ordination among the various agencies engaged in the study of health; and,
- The right of every Canadian to be well nourished; therefore,
RESOLVED, That the National Council of Women of Canada request the Government of Canada to place more emphasis on action programs for the more nutritionally vulnerable groups; including pregnant women, nursing mothers, infants, teenagers, the elderly, Indigenous people, and people on low incomes and fixed incomes.