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OTMH annual meeting speaker contends: Nurturing the young will lead to a wealthier Canada By DIANE HART _ Special to the Beaver n eminent physician who A believes Canadians must find _ S new ways to create wealth gave a room full of community leaders food for thought this week. In a wideâ€"ranging speech at the 50th annual meeting of the Oakvilleâ€" Trafalgar Memorial Hospital, Dr. Fraser Mustard spoke of the crucial need for nourishment and nurturing in the early years of a child and its effects on both the later adult health and broader health of a country. Mustard, the head of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIAR), has long been recognized for his personal crusade to lead Canada into a new era of economic prosperity. Recently, the former research docâ€" tor made headlines about the imporâ€" tance of nurturing and nourishment children from birth to two years of age has on cognitive development. In Oakville, Wednesday, he said later in an interview, he wanted to "hammer home" what the importance of a child‘s early years can have on society as a whole. In his speech, Mustard spoke of the need to focus on nutrition and nourishâ€" ment as ways to contribute to the wealth of a country. The driving force behind the 12â€" yearâ€"old Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIAR), Mustard told the crowd of the close relationâ€" ship, even in developed countries, among economic growth prosperity, and individual and societal health and wellâ€"being. In the early 1950s, Mustard â€" a bioâ€" chemist â€" pioneered research on the positive effects of Aspirin on blood clotting and reducing strokes. During the next decade, he became increasâ€" 1 15994 I [ROTISSERIE CHICKEN ¢‘«‘s‘s 9 1968653 The best in the west! Featuring Montana‘s Rotisserie Chicken! 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