Lisa Schaffer, with Obesity Canada, joined CTV Morning Live’s Kent Morrison to call for systemic changes on how people view obesity while recognizing it as a chronic disease.
This transcript has been edited for length and clarity.
Kent Morrison: One in three Canadians is living with obesity and a new report says not properly dealing with this costs more than $27 billion. Let’s talk about that number. It is a big, big number. How did we arrive at that?
Lisa Schaffer:How we got there has a lot to do with the bias and stigma that we have been steeped in when it comes to thinking about people living with obesity or people living in bigger bodies. We really tried to flip the script with this report. It can be really heartbreaking to hear that one in three Canadians is living with overweight and obesity. But what’s even more heartbreaking is how much is still misunderstood that this is a chronic disease. Obesity …