Footnotes

1. Health Canada, Diabetes in Canada (Second Edition), Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Population and Public Health Branch, 2002, available at
   www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/dic-dac2/pdf/dic-dac2_en.pdf
   
2. World Health Organization, Diabetes Fact Sheet, 2006, available at
   www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs312/en
   
3. Canadian Diabetes Association, "The Prevalence and Costs of Diabetes," web site,
   www.diabetes.ca/Section_about/prevalence.asp
   
4. Public Health Agency of Canada, "Diabetes Facts and Figures," web site,
   www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/ccdpc-cpcmc/diabetes-diabete/english/facts/index.html
   
5. Canadian Diabetes Association, op.cit.
6. Statistics Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey, 2005.
7. Susan Lilley, Preventing Diabetes in Atlantic Canada, prepared for the Atlantic Regional Office, Population and Public Health Branch, Health Canada, Halifax, 2000.
   
8. Dalhousie University, A Diabetes Profile of Atlantic Canada, Population Health Research Unit, Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Halifax, 2000.
9. Karen Hayward and Ronald Colman, GPI Atlantic, The Tides of Change: Addressing Inequity and Chronic Disease in Atlantic Canada: A Discussion Paper, prepared for the Atlantic Regional Office, Population and Public Health Branch, Health Canada, Halifax, 2003.
10. Public Health Agency of Canada, Population Health web site,
    http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/ph-sp/phdd/approach/index.html
    
11. Health Canada, op.cit., p.2.
12. World Health Organization, The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, First International Conference on Health Promotion, Ottawa, November 21, 1986, http://www.who.int/healthpromotion/conferences/previous/ottawa
    /en/index.html.
13. Malcolm Shookner, Population Health Research Unit, Dalhousie University, and the Social Inclusion Reference Group, An Inclusion Lens: Workbook for Looking at Social and Economic Exclusion and Inclusion, prepared for the Atlantic Regional Office, Population and Public Health Branch, Health Canada, Halifax, 2002.
14. Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Research Centre, Physical Activity Monitors and Surveys, available at www.cflri.ca/eng/statistics/surveys.
    
15. Canadian Diabetes Association, op.cit.
    
16. Ronald Colman, GPI Atlantic, The Costs of Physical Inactivity in Nova Scotia, Halifax, 2002.
17. Ronald Colman, GPI Atlantic, The Cost of Chronic Disease in Nova Scotia, prepared for the Unit for Chronic Disease Prevention and Population Health, Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, and Atlantic Regional Office, Population and Public Health Branch, Health Canada, Halifax, 2002.
18. Hayward and Colman, op.cit., p.16.
19. The HEAL Database and Policy Scan was undertaken by the Atlantic Health Promotion Research Centre (AHPRC) to identify policies, programs, and initiatives that promote healthy eating and active living across Canada. These data are housed in a publicly accessible and searchable Healthy Eating and Active Living (HEAL) database available at www.ahprc.dal.ca/heal/index.cfm.
20. Readers are encouraged to review the document Healthier Food, Healthier People Project: A Joint Initiative (2006) for a more extensive overview of food security issues and initiatives within Atlantic Canada.
21. Public Health Agency of Canada and Health Canada, Healthier Food, Healthier People Project: A Joint Initiative, Atlantic Regional Office, Public Health Agency of Canada, and Atlantic Regional Office, Health Products and Food Branch, Health Canada, Halifax, 2006. This report contains a directory of food security initiatives throughout Atlantic Canada.
22. For more information about food security projects in Nova Scotia, visit the Nova Scotia Nutrition
    Council web site at www.nsnc.ca or the Atlantic Health Promotion Research Centre web site at www.ahprc.dal.ca
23. Op.cit.
24. Lilley, op. cit., p. 1.
    
25. World Health Organization, Consultation on Obesity, Ch 9: "The prevention and management of obesity in populations: a public health approach," 1997.
26. Lilley, op. cit., p.4.
27. Excerpted from Lilley, op.cit.
28. Excerpted from Colman, The Costs of Physical Inactivity in Nova Scotia, op.cit.
29. Excerpted from Colman, The Cost of Chronic Disease in Nova Scotia, op.cit.
30. Excerpted from Hayward and Colman, op. cit., p. 16.

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