Welcome to the Healthy Living Resource Centre. Here you will find tools and easy-to-print fact sheets. These resources are intended to provide practical information for clients and consumers on food, nutrition and healthy lifestyles.
Feature Article
Eating Well with Canada's Food Guide
For smart eating, one size doesn’t fit all. The updated Canada's Food Guide makes eating well flexible enough to suit the many differences among healthy people in all life stages.
Canada's Food Guide
Eating Right Today
Healthy eating and active living are the keys to promoting well being both now and in the future. For many of us, however, combining great taste and healthy eating can be challenging.
Eating Right
Get Moving: What’s in it for you?
Regular physical activity is an important part of your “health plan”. No matter what your age, physical activity combined with good nutrition can make a big difference in your health, sense of well-being and ability to maintain a healthy weight.
Get moving
Nutrition Know-How for Physically Active Adults
Healthy eating is the key to getting more fun and fitness from your exercise program. Exercise makes your body work hard, and the right food helps your body respond.
Nutrition
Ready, Set, Go: Healthy Eating for Active Teens
Do you participate in school sports, take dance classes, walk to class or get your 60 minutes of daily physical activity through biking, swimming or other fun-filled activities?
Healthy Eating for Active Teens
Tip the Scale in Your Favour: Smart Advice for Managing Your Weight
Managing your weight can be a daily challenge. If you’ve tried popular diets only to find that you can’t live with the rigid rules, then perhaps it’s time to try a sensible eating approach to help manage your weight.
Managing Weight
Working Toward a Healthy Weight: Tips to Get you Started
Are you trying to lose some weight or keep unwanted pounds from creeping up on the scale? If so, focus on good nutrition and physical activity as the basis for a "can do" healthy living plan.
Healthy Weight
Invest in Healthy Eating: Stock Your Kitchen Wisely
Looking for a smart health investment? Healthy eating pays dividends by helping you look and feel your best. Start with a plan; then stock your kitchen to put it into action.
Healthy Eating
Diabetes Education
Fast Facts about Diabetes
Diabetes is a growing health concern, currently affecting about 2 million Canadians. Having diabetes means that the body cannot properly use energy from food.
Diabetes
Healthy Eating Tips for Managing Diabetes
Managing diabetes? It’s essential to keep your blood sugar level consistent to avoid the big “ups and downs” that can be dangerous.
Managing diabetes
Managing Your Diabetes Eating Plan Away from Home
Consistency is a healthy eating basic for managing diabetes and controlling blood sugar levels.
Eating Plan Away from Home