The College of Dietitians of Manitoba will be providing resources available to consumers regarding healthy living and healthy lifestyle.
Health Canada has provided a downloadable presentation explaining Canada's Food Guide. This is done in a powerpoint presentation. Click on the below link for this presentation:
Eating Well with Canada's Food Guide
This on-line version allows users to personalize nutritional information based on age and sex, along with, food and exercise preferences. Your results can also be printed in Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Persion, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Tamil, Urdu, French and English. One can also keep track of the amount and type of food you eat each day. This is also available in print out form. Use it to keep track of your daiily choices.
www.healthcanada.gc.ca/foodguide
World Cancer Research Fund has made available for purchase or viewing of the Second Expert Report, Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity and the Prevention of Cancer: A Global Perspective.
You can access the website at : http://www.dietandcancerreport.org/
The Canadian Cancer Society has a new bilingual pamphlet on vegetables and fruits (5 to 10 a day) which can be ordered in quantity from: http://www.5to10aday.com/
http://www.breakfastforlearning.ca/
An information update has been issued by Health Canada on March 2009 concerning a new series of act sheets on safe handling of fresh produce. The information udpate is available on the Health Canada website at:
www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ahc-asc/media/advisories-avis/_2009/2009_40-eng.php
