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How do Canadian food and beverage manufacturers compare when it comes to addressing nutrition and obesity? Today we released our report - we see some leadership, but have a long way to go. labbelab.utoronto.ca/BIA-Obesity-Ca…

#UofT nutrition prof Mary L’Abbé makes the case for why we should prevent companies from marketing unhealthy food to kids: uoft.me/fighting-obesi…

Sen Wallin (Sask) opposes #Marketing2Kids restrictions but 3 out of 4 people in Saskatchewan think the food & beverage industry markets its products directly to kids. #BillS228 helps protect kids from harmful marketing. #SenCA, don’t let the bill die. Put it to a vote. @donplett

Bill S-228 has a broad range of voices supporting this landmark legislation to restrict food and beverage marketing to children 12 and under. #SenCA – time is running out. Vote on and pass Bill S-228 to stop #Marketing2Kids.

A pic of [half a slide from] my presentation at #ISBNPA2019 got tweeted today - am I a famous researcher now? #AskingForAFriend

I would love to walk down a grocery aisle and not see any cartoon characters staring back at me. Chile's regulations to restrict marketing and protect children are a benchmark and 🇨🇦 is so close! Senate of Canada

Are food politics defeating Canada's healthy eating strategy? cbc.ca/news/health/fr…

“Sugar hides in almost all pre-packaged food.” Food processors and packagers have over 150 different words for sugar, so it can be really hard to spot it on the nutritional label, says #UofTMed’s Dr. Jodi Bernstein. bit.ly/33BJMmD

Supermarkets put junk food on special twice as often as healthy food, and that's a problem theconversation.com/supermarkets-p… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand Adrian Cameron Devorah Riesenberg @KBackholer Christina Zorbas @GLOBE_obesity

Our paper “Vegetarianism and other eating practices among youth and young adults in major Canadian cities” is out today in Public Health Nutrition: cambridge.org/core/journals/… Lana Vanderlee, PhD @DavidHammondPhD Nutrition Society Cambridge UP - Medicine & Health Sciences

Thanks to @BelgianNutrSoc & StefanieVandevijvere for giving us PhD students the opportunity to share our work on nutrient profiling on an international stage 13th European Nutrition Conference.

Part of the L'Abbe Lab team! 13th European Nutrition Conference Beatriz Franco-Arellano Laura Vergeer, PhD Christine Mulligan Mary

Our paper about the nutritional quality of more- vs. less-processed packaged food and beverage products in Canada is out in Nutrients MDPI today. L'Abbe Lab mdpi.com/2072-6643/11/1…

Great news on the policy front in Canada 🇨🇦 - Health Canada and PHAC Mandate Letter includes mention of marketing restrictions on unhealthy foods and front of package labelling. 🙌 Now let's see some policy action! pm.gc.ca/en/mandate-let…

Check out L'Abbe Lab’s latest paper evaluating Canadian foods using Health Canada’s nutrient criteria for #M2K restrictions. Available as part of a great special issue in IJERPH. mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/4…

Our paper published in Foods MDPI today describes our L'Abbe Lab methodology for estimating FVNL points for nutrient profiling in the absence of quantitative ingredients declarations: mdpi.com/2304-8158/9/8/…

🚨New paper describing the development & application of our tool for quantifying the strength of food company product (re)formulation actions & commitments American Society for Nutrition Journals Lana Vanderlee, PhD Gary Sacks Ella Robinson Christine Mulligan L'Abbe Lab INFORMAS doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nz…

Thanks to the The Varsity for this great article about our study recently published in Current Developments in Nutrition L'Abbe Lab thevarsity.ca/2020/11/01/top…