date:Oct 29, 2012
up from 14 to 18 per cent in the early 1980s, the OMA report said.
It means todays children may be the first in the history of North America to live shorter lives than their parents, the OMA report concluded.
We are raising a generation of children that will suffer from devastating and wholly preventable diseases, overwhelm the health system, and die prematurely, said OMA president Dr. Doug Weir.
Weir calls the situation a full-scale public health crisis.
Dr. Yoni Freedhoff, an Ottawa-based