The declining trends in CVD mortality has not lessened the interest in diet and heart disease. The relationship between diet and heart disease was the first to markedly influence nutrition guidelines and continues to do so in 1994.
Cancer continues to be the second leading cause of death for both men and women.
The rates have however changed since those reported in Country Paper Canada as has the incidence among different kinds of cancer. As with cardiovascular disease, dietary fat has been associated with cancer mortality and incidence particularly cancer of the breast, colon and prostate. The distribution of healthy weights in the Canadian population has changed. Herein is data reported from the 1991 GSS unless otherwise noted. In 1991, Health and Welfare Canada published the Report of the Task Force on the Treatment of Obesity.