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Canada's Guide to Healthy Eating and Physical Activity combines the messages of both the current Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating and the Physical Activity Guide to Healthy Active Living in an effort to integrally promote healthy eating, physical activity and healthy weights to Canadians.

Use this Guide to help you make wise choices on how to eat well and be active.

Benefits of regular physical activity and healthy eating:

• better health
• look, feel and perform better
• stronger muscles and bones
• weight control
• better self-esteem
• feeling more energetic
• continued independent living in later life

Health risks of physical inactivity and unhealthy eating:

• premature death and disability
• heart disease
• obesity
• osteoporosis
• high blood pressure
• type 2 diabetes
• stroke
• some types of cancer