Item - 2013.HL20.5
Tracking Status
- This item was considered by Board of Health on March 25, 2013 and was adopted with amendments.
HL20.5 - The Ontario Healthy Kids Panel Report
- Decision Type:
- ACTION
- Status:
- Amended
- Wards:
- All
Board Decision
The Board of Health:
1. Requested the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care to consider amendments to strengthen specific recommendations, as follows:
a. support and encourage exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life and sustained for up to two years or longer with appropriate complementary feeding; and
b. Recommendation 2.1: Ban all commercial advertising/marketing to children under 13 years old.
2. Requested the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care to adopt the recommendations and proposed actions outlined in the implementation plan of the Healthy Kids Strategy, including the six milestones identified for year one.
3. Requested the Province of Ontario to increase its Student Nutrition Program funding, starting in year one of the proposed implementation plan, as an additional milestone.
4. Requested the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care to include Toronto as one of the ten initial communities involved in Ontario's version of EPODE.
Decision Advice and Other Information
The Board of Health:
1. Deferred consideration of Recommendation 1 in the report (March 11, 2013) until the next meeting on April 29, 2013.
2. Referred the following motion by Kristle Calisto-Tavares to the Medical Officer of Health for consideration and report back to the Board of Health on April 29, 2013:
"That Recommendation 2 in the report (March 11, 2013) from the Medical Officer of Health be amended by adding 2c. to read as follows:
2 c. Require all restaurants, including fast food and retail grocery stores, to list appropriate nutritional information, instead of only calories, in each item on their menu and to make this information visible on menu boards."
Origin
Summary
This report provides an overview and recommends endorsement, in principle, of No Time to Wait: The Healthy Kids Strategy, which is a comprehensive three-pronged strategy to address the issue of childhood obesity and promote the health and well-being of children and youth in Ontario. The Ontario Healthy Kids Panel presented a series of recommendations in its submission to Honourable Deb Matthews, Minister of Health and Long-Term Care on March 4, 2013 and proposed a number of actions to implement the strategy.
This report also highlights some initiatives being undertaken in Toronto, as well as several of the Board of Health's policy and program directions that support the recommendations of the Healthy Kids Strategy. In addition, this report recommends that the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care consider some amendments to strengthen specific recommendations proposed in the Healthy Kids Strategy.
Background Information
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2013/hl/bgrd/backgroundfile-56663.pdf
(March 11, 2013) Appendix 1: No Time to Wait: The Healthy Kids Strategy, Ontario Healthy Kids Panel, March 2013
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2013/hl/bgrd/backgroundfile-56677.pdf
Communications
Motions
That recommendation 2 in the report (March 11, 2013) from the Medical Officer of Health be amended to add 2 (c) to read:
Require all restaurants, including fast food and retail grocery stores, to list appropriate nutritional information, instead of only calories, in each item on their menu and to make this information visible on menu boards.
That motion 1 by Kristle Calisto-Tavares be referred to the Medical Officer of Health for consideration and report back on April 29, 2013.
That consideration of Recommendation 1 in the report (March 11, 2013) from the Medical Officer of Health be deferred until the next meeting on April 29, 2013.