w North Shore told to step THE MEDICAL profession must take a public advocacy position if Canada is to decrease the incidence of heart disease, a North Shore audience was toid recently at a Heart Health Forum. News Reporter Canadian doctors suffer from being ‘‘terminally nice,’’ avoiding political confrontation, said Dr. Andrew Pipe, assistant professor at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. Pipe, who is also an anti-smok- ing lobbyist, was speaking at the day-long workshop, where North Shore health professionals, politicans, educators, students and members of the public gathered to discuss a community-based heart health program. “If we're going to do something about heart disease we have to start long before it happens,’’ Pipe said, explaining that the medical profession has no ‘‘magical’’ cure for heart disease. ‘‘Lifestyle is an important factor in terms of de- veloping heart disease.”’ People must address the risk factors leading to heart disease, Pipe said, which means raising public and government awareness about the dangers of smoking, obesity and stress. “We have to become political,”’ he said, to meet the ‘‘amoral, lav- ishly-funded"’ tobacco industry lobby head on. Canadians must couraged to engage also be en- in regular medical professionals up heart disease fight physical exercise and decrease fat intake, Pipe said. Calling it a ‘‘fraud,"’ Pipe said the health food industry takes ad- vantage of a Canadian preoccupa- Uon with diet and nutrition. He said Canadians have a prob- fem with a ‘‘malnutrition’’ of in- appropriate and excessive cating habits. “Rather we've got to find a way of involving society, all sectors, to make healthy chnices easily,’’ Pipe said. He added that lower income fasnilies bear the brunt of cardio- ~ vascular disease, contrary to the stereotype of harried executives. Yet health promotion activities have traditionally been geared to the upper middle class, and not the segment of the population that would benefit most, he said. The North Shore's chief medical officer, Dr. Brian O'Connor, told the forum that heart disease is also the leading cause of death on the North Shore, adding that 471 North Shore residents, 43 to 48 per cent of total North Shore deaths, died from cardiovascular disease in 1988. And, he said, 75 per cent of those who died from heart disease were not aware they had the disease, nor were their doctors. “For many the first notification is the last,” O’Connor said. Such statistics have resulted in Q’Connor and the North Shore Health department joining forces with key sectors of the community to promote health. “We have to begin to look at health as a positive concept,’’ he D. Cove development gets public support SUPPORT for a plan to redevelop the Nutshell and Savoury restau- rant sites in Deep Cove ran high at a Monday night North Vancouver District public meeting. By PAMELA LANG Contributing Writer The Taurus Ventures Ltd. commercial and residential project at the foot of Gallant Avenue garnered positive comments from almost all of the meeting’s approx- imately 20 speakers. While a number of concerns were raised, including building height and underground parking access, only one resident spoke out entirely against the project. Katherine Fagerlund reiterated comments to council that she'd stated in a letter on the same topic, suggesting that the building is larger than most supporters real- ize. “Any development on the prime property will hugely affect the character of Deep Cove village,’ she wrote. At the meeting she added that while she was not against devel- opment at the site, the high degree of support came from a feeling that this project is a great im- provement over existing land use. The question, she said, is whether this is the best develop- ment possible for the site. But supporters pointed out that the building across the street from the site is taller than the proposed development. They also noted that several meetings had been held on the de- velopment, and that Taurus Ven- tures had addressed the concerns of Deep Cove residents in the de- velopment’s current design. Because the development area provides pedestrian access to Panorama Park and because the new development will share park- ing access with the Deep Cove Yacht Club, concerns over parking were brought up by various speakers at the meeting. But some of those concerns have been alleviated in the new design by the addition of a pedestrian bridge leading to the park from Gallant Avenue. Speaking in support of the cur- rent design, yacht club member Peter Border said it will alleviate current parking problems. Others speakers also said that the proposed parking is better than the existing commercial parking. According to the plan before council, the development will rise 40 feet above grade. Although that would be within zoning restric- tions, council members raised con- cerns about the height of the build- ing being excessive. But Mayor Marilyn Baker sug- gested the height could be reduced by lessening the pitch of the roof peaks without harming the esthetic value of the design. Council passed a motion to defer a decision on issuance of the development permit for the project until Feb. 19. The building will contain ground-level commercial space and two levels of underground parking as well as £7 two-bedroom con- dominiums, which council was told will be priced between $200,000 and $300,000. United Way LP People helping people. said, ‘rather than define health as the absence of disease.” O'Connor stressed increased community involvement, mutual aid and more self-care in combina- tion with better community sup- port services and public policies as steps towards developing a ‘heart healthy’* community. “It is a political process, there's absolutely no question about it.”’ Every Rug GUARANTEEDi Handmade 3'X5' gopiy/20cound 5 - Friday. February 16. 1990 - North Shore News TORCHY’S is on Holiday TORCH YS in THE VILLAGE | DESIGNER TREASURE PERSIAN SILK DHURRIE BOKHARA 4x6 Handmade mat (Many colours) th any purchase $725 We will be closed Sun. Feb. through Thurs. 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