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Canada's Guide to Healthy Eating and Physical Activity

Regular physical activity and healthy eating are key to maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

Canada's Guide to Healthy Eating and Physical Activity does not replace the current Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating and Canada's Physical Activity Guide to Healthy Active Living . It is a combination of important points from both Guides into one document, which promotes the benefits of eating well and being active and helps you make wise choices everyday.

Physical Activity Contribution Program: Supporting Healthy Living for Canadians

The Physical Activity Contribution Program: Supporting Healthy Living for Canadians is an important means by which the Public Health Agency of Canada carries out its mandate and achieves its goals to help Canadians improve and maintain their health through regular physical activity. Recognizing that health is a shared responsibility, contribution funding is also a means by which Health Canada supports and engages the voluntary sector to effect change, improve situations, and collaborate on activities of mutual benefit. Partnerships and collaborative action between governments, non-government organizations, and other agencies, help to reduce barriers and increase access to convenient, safe, affordable, and attractive opportunities to integrate physical activity into daily living.

Healthy Living Strategy:

The Public Health Agency of Canada, in partnership with the provinces and territories, is working with other levels and sectors of government, community groups, volunteer organizations, non-governmental organizations, Aboriginal peoples, the private sector, academia, consumer organizations, and others with an interest in healthy living to develop an Integrated Pan-Canadian Healthy Living Strategy. The goal of this initiative is to build a healthier nation, reduce health disparities and contribute to the efficiency and sustainability of the health system in Canada by providing Canadians information and opportunities to make healthier decisions that will lead to a better quality of life. Initially, the Strategy will emphasize nutrition and physical activity, and their relationship to healthy weights. For more information on the Strategy, please visit: www.healthyliving-viesaine.ca.

Last Updated: 2005-06-21

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