Making McMaster University responsible for one of the federal government’s top health priorities, the University will lead the country’s fight against fat. To create the Canadian Obesity Network, the government is giving the university $800,000. It will be headed by Dr. Arya Sharma, McMaster professor and world renowned researcher.
The growing obesity problem is now affecting 5.5 million Canadians. And the network will be in charge of finding solutions to the epidemic.
Dr. Arya Sharma said, “This is the biggest health problem of our time... But the level of funding and the level of people working in the field are nowhere close to what we have in other diseases.”
Via:: The Hamilton Spectator
