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As we’ve learned from the pandemic, the best way to lessen the cost and impact of illness is to prevent it; hence masks, social distancing, working from home and the great hope for vaccines.
We need to apply the same lessons to other serious health challenges. For example, eating ultra-processed packaged foods is linked to increased health risks including high blood pressure, heart disease and stroke, diabetes, obesity and cancer.
In 2019, almost 36,000 deaths in Canada were attributed to unhealthy diets.
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