As Canada has urbanized over the past couple generations, we’ve moved further away from food production — or any significant hands-on knowledge of it. One result of this: more than a quarter of Canadian children are overweight or obese.

The same is true at the global level. A recent World Health Organization study found a ten-fold global increase in obesity among children and adolescents over the past four decades.

Federal policymakers should take note of these grim statistic as they finalize Canada’s first national food policy that will aim, among other things, to increase access to nutritious (and affordable) food.

One way to address this growing problem is to make it easier for Canadians to grow their own food.

http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/views-expressed/2017/11/canadians-need-grow-their-own-food