No More Ice Cream Trucks in Squamish Nation Due to High Diabetes Rates

Filed in archive Lifestyle , News on July 5, 2007

In Squamish Nation, ice cream trucks have been banned due to high rates of diabetes.

Earlier this year, as the days grew longer and the evenings warmer, Ms. Paul hatched a plan to ban ice-cream trucks from the three native communities on Vancouver's North Shore. She was prompted into action, she said, by soaring diabetes and obesity rates in the native population, including her own family.

Ms. Doris Paul is a community worker for the Squamish Nation government whose initiative was backed by the Squamish Nation councillors.

Earlier this summer, the business office denied Rainbow Ice Cream Novelties a permit to operate in its native communities.

As a replacement to the the ice-cream trucks, the Squamish Nation is developing a Community garden so people can grow their own produce.

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