Lakelands Public Health offers practical resources, information, and training to support you to make healthy and safe food choices.
Healthy Eating
Food is a big part of our lives, eating a variety of foods safely can help your body get the nutrients it needs. Many things influence our food choices, including affordability, food safety practices, local sourcing, culture, traditions, and health considerations such as allergies and medical conditions.
To support your journey towards healthier eating habits, we offer resources on Canada’s Food Guide and tips for safe food handling. Explore the resources below to enhance your understanding and help you make healthy choices.
Canada's Food Guide (CFG) gives us guidance for eating! The CFG uses the most up-to-date science and translates it to guide and support you and your family with your food and nutrition goals. CFG is available in many languages including ones for some Inuit and First Nations peoples.
Explore Canada's Food Guide
Food literacy is a bigger concept and is about the inter-linking between many factors that affect our eating and nutrition habits.
Better food literacy can help you, your children and your family enjoy better health. Here are some food literacy tips to build food literacy for life.
Unlock Food is a bilingual, award-winning website brought to you by Dietitians of Canada. UnlockFood.ca is here to help Canadians connect with a dietitian and find the nutrition and food information that they need when they need it.
On UnlockFood.ca, you will find information on nutrition, food and healthy eating, as well as recipes, videos and online tools. There is information on hundreds of topics from A-Z.
Dietitian Support
Registered Dietitians are regulated health care professionals trained to provide advice and counselling about diet, food, and nutrition. Speak to a Registered Dietitian for free at Health Connect Ontario at 8-1-1.
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