Calls for restricting the marketing of unhealthy food to children: Canadian cardiovascular health care and scientific community get ignored by policy makers: What can they do?

Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 479-481

  Campbell, Norm ^a   Pipe, Andrew ^b   Duhaney, Tara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANADA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; DIET RESTRICTION; EDITORIAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD; FOOD INDUSTRY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MARKETING; MEDICAL SOCIETY;

CANADA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHILD; FAST FOODS; FOOD HABITS; FOOD INDUSTRY; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; MARKETING; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL;

EID: 84899943434     PISSN: 0828282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cjca.2013.11.025     Document Type: Editorial

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