Eating Well

Healthy eating builds a strong body and is important for maintaining a healthy weight. Use Eating Well with Canada’s Food Guide to help you make wise food choices.

Remember to:

• Select a variety of foods from all food groups
  such as fruit, vegetables, dairy and grains
  
• Emphasize cereals, breads, other grain products, vegetables and fruit
  
• Choose lower-fat dairy products, leaner meats and foods prepared with little or no fat
  
• Achieve and maintain a healthy body weight by enjoying regular physical activity and healthy eating

Healthy Recipes

Explore these healthy recipes

You can also use the Nutrition Facts table on food products to help you understand food labels. Check whether you have a healthy body weight using the Body Mass Index calculator, and check out the Vitality program.

Find out more about safe handling of fresh fruits and vegetables.

Consult the Dieticians of Canada, Eat Well, Live Well, for great nutrition information.

Eating well doesn’t mean giving up the foods you love;
it means choosing foods wisely.

Related Links

• Canada’s Physical Activity guide to Active Healthy Living

• Eat Right Ontario

• Canadian Cancer Society

• Live Well Online A physical activity and nutrition education website developed by Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health, with support from the Waterloo Wellington Cancer Prevention & Early Detection Network. Live Well Online was made possible through a Cancer Care Ontario grant for primary prevention of colorectal cancer.