Health, and healthy eating, has many determinants at different levels both
individual and societal.     Personal behaviours and habits are only one
piece of the puzzle -  income, education, social status, healthy childhood
development, etc have tremendous roles to play.     Evidence clearly shows
that in order to promote a real change in health/nutritional health we need
to look "upstream" and address the root causes.     Victim blaming and
focusing too much energy on knowledge enhancement is not helpful.     There
are huge reasons people do not eat healthy - stressful lives, poor family
and social supports, inadequate income, limited access to grocery
stores/poor housing AND limited knowledge.

Valerie Tarasuk and Lynn MacIntyre both have numerous articles that suggest
an upstream approach.


Colleen Goggin
Program Consultant/Consultante en programme
Health Canada/Santé Canada
Population and Public Health Branch/Direction générale de la santé de la
population et de la santé publique
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