Healthy eating is a key part of leading a healthy life. Eating nutritious food gives us energy, promotes wellness, and prevents chronic diseases like diabetes and heart disease. The Health Unit offers a range of nutrition programs, resources, and services to promote healthy eating throughout the lifespan and create supportive nutrition environments in the community.

The Health Unit supports the public in making healthier food choices for themselves, their families, and their community. We collaborate with community partners to provide education, skill building, environmental supports and policy development with regards to food, as a way to prevent chronic disease and promote wellness.

For more information on healthy eating, visit the following pages:

• Information on Canada's Food Guide or order copies of the new food guide
• Cooking and food skills
• Feeding your baby, preschooler, or school-aged child
• Healthy eating and body confidence for teens
• Food insecurity
• Nutrition during pregnancy
• Find a registered dietitian 
• Food and the Environment

Additional Resources

Telehealth Ontario

Call Telehealth Ontario toll-free at 1-866-797-0000 to speak directly to a registered dietitian about nutrition and healthy eating. This service is available 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday to Friday, in over 100 languages.

Dietitians of Canada

• Unlockfood.ca provides information on nutrition, food and healthy eating as well as recipes, videos and interactive healthy eating tools
• Cookspiration.com provides healthy recipes and meal inspiration
• Your Health allows you to analyze recipes, search nutrition topics A to Z, and get tips to plan, shop and cook healthy meals

Canada's Food Guide

Canada's Food Guide provides healthy eating guidelines from Health Canada.

Teacher's Resources

Find in-classroom teaching resources and tools about healthy eating