The Centre for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is pleased to announce the national conference, “Championing Public Health Nutrition 2010,” exploring leading edge developments in nutrition science and policy, the economic and public finance aspects of diet-related disease, sodium reduction, nutrition labelling on restaurant menus, school nutrition, child protection, national initiatives to coordinate food policies and strategies, public policy advocacy, and much more!

Who: Scientists, policy-makers, public health and child advocates, and journalists.  Championing Public Health Nutrition 2010 is a "must-attend" event for federal, provincial or municipal policy-makers, health researchers, health journalists, nutrition-promoters, child and health advocates, educators, and anyone concerned about the diets of Canadians!

When: October 25-26, 2010

Where:  Ottawa, Ontario, Canada at the newly renovated historic Canadian Museum of Nature, home to the Parliament of Canada from 1916-1920.

Why: To explore ways to prevent diet-related cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancers, and obesity, and enjoy the fruits of increased economic productivity and reduced health care costs often wasted when governments rely too much on expensive medications and operations after people get sick.

Some of the more than two dozen speakers include:

• Graham MacGregor, M.D. Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of London and Chairman of World Action on Salt and Health (WASH). 
• Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, Associate Professor of Medicine and of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco
• Marv Bernstein, B.A., LL.B., LL.M., UNICEF Canada, Toronto
• Mary McKenna, RD, Ph.D, Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology, University of New Brunswick and Nutrition Consultant to the World Health Organization (WHO) on its Global Framework on School Health
• Martha Mackinnon, B.A., B.Ed., M.A., LL.B., Executive Director of Justice for Children and Youth, Toronto
• Mary R. L’Abbé, Ph.D. Chair of the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Toronto, member of the World Health Organization’s new Nutrition Guidance Advisory Group, and former Director, Bureau of Nutritional Sciences at Health Canada
• France Gélinas, Ontario Member of Provincial Parliament (Nickel Belt) and sponsor of Bill 90, Healthy Decisions for Healthy Eating Act, 2010
• Phillip Leslie, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Economics and Strategic Management, Stanford University
• Hasan Hutchinson, Ph.D, N.D., Director General, Office of Nutrition Policy and Promotion, Health Canada, Ottawa

Visit www.cspinet.ca for more information.