This year, the Public Health Association of BC (PHABC) had a brilliant theme for its annual conference: “Commercial Determinants of Health.” BELOW: a screenshot of advertising for the Public Health Association of BC (PHABC)’s conference on the “Commercial Determinants of
A trailblazing program at Vancouver hospitals Changing food habits is hard. For hospitals, shifting meal service toward more lentils and less beef cannot be accomplished overnight. But Vancouver Coastal Health and the city’s main hospital are committed to it. With
What you eat has real consequences for your personal health. But food is also a factor in the broader areas of public health and planetary health. All these levels of human well-being are affected by our diets and by our entire
For those of us with plenty of food, should high-emissions meals still be considered a ‘personal choice’? Last month I had the honour of presenting to a receptive and knowledgeable audience at City University of London’s Centre for Food Policy
