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Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating

Links to Canada's Food Guide, published by Health Canada.
Source:     Health Canada

Healthy Living - Interactive Tools

Healthy Weight, Healthy you!
Source:     Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada

Body Mass Index (BMI) Nomogram

For quick determination of Body Mass Index (BMI), refer to the BMI calculator.
Source:     Health Canada

EATracker - Eating + Activity Tracker

EATracker assesses your food choices and provides personalized feedback on your total intake of energy (calories) and essential nutrients and compares this to what is recommended for your age, gender, and activity level. It also determines your body mass index (BMI) and provides information to help you achieve and maintain a healthy weight.
Source:     Dietitians of Canada

Interactive Nutrition Label and Quiz

The Interactive Nutrition Label (INL) is an interactive tool designed to take consumers, step-by-step, through the new Nutrition Facts table to help them make informed food choices.
Source:     Health Canada

Let's Make A Meal

"Let's Make a Meal" is an interactive menu planners lets you build a one-day menu. Use the "Food Guide Calculator" as a quick and easy tool to see if you are eating well. "Let's Make a Meal!" allows you to choose various menu items for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks, and compares your choices against the food guide servings recommended by Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating.
Source:     Dietitians of Canada

Nutrition Challenges

The Nutrition Challenges are a fun way to get reliable health and nutrition information from Canada's trusted source - dietitians. Each challenge provides you with a unique opportunity to have some fun and learn more about Eating Well, Living Well and Feeling Great.
Source:     Dietitians of Canada

One Day @ A Time

This fun and interactive tool will allow you to travel along a path to different healthy eating challenges that you may face on a typical day.
Source:     Dietitians of Canada

Virtual Community

Virtual Community is a projet from Dietitians of Canada for the French community. Information available in French only.
Source:     Dietitians of Canada

Virtual Grocery Store

Virtual shopping tour through our on-line grocery store. You can take the tour either in French or English. Here you will learn how you can use the nutrition information on the label of packaged foods to make healthy choices for you and your family. You'll find that there's a lots of healthy eating "in store" for you!
Source:     Dietitians of Canada and Canadian Diabetes Association

Virtual Kitchen

Explore the Dietitians of Canada virtual kitchen by clicking on selected areas to reveal interesting nutrition facts about the foods you eat.
Source:     Dietitians of Canada

Health Measures - Self-Assessment Quiz

Take this self-assessment quiz to help you examine your health habits. Explore hunger and fullness, physical activity levels and your strategies for looking after yourself - both body and soul.
Source:     Ontario Public Health Association

The VITALITY Quiz

Healthy eating. Active Living. Positive self and body image. See how much you know about the healthy pleasures of VITALITY.
Source:     Health Canada

Breastfeeding Support - Toronto

View a slide show highlighting the Benefits of Breastfeeding for Mothers and the Benefits for Babies or turn on your sound and press play to hear delightful tunes.
Source:     City of Toronto