Even the "progressive press" gets sucked into the lifestyle and obesity
mantra. See article in Toronto Star and my letter to editor.

http://tinyurl.com/r7mjw

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Someone should inform Minister of Health Promotion Jim Watson (Ontario's
saleman for health, Aug. 30) that the Ontarians most at risk for poor
health are not those who own Blackberries but rather the citizens suffering
under his government's stubborn refusal to provide the Child Benefit to
families on social assistance, those working at poverty-producing minimum
wages, and people unable to work and dependent upon miserly social
assistance benefits that cause dispair and disease. Of course its a lot
easier -- and less threatening to his government -- to talk about exercise
and obesity than it is about lousy public policy.

Dennis Raphael, Ph.D.
Professor & Undergraduate Program Director
School of Health Policy & Management
Faculty of Health
York University
4700 Keele St.
Toronto ON M3J 1P3

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