Nutrition and Lifestyle

This report sets out Health Canada’s guidelines and considerations on healthy eating. The guidelines are based on the best available scientific evidence. They promote healthy eating and overall nutritional well-being, and support improvements to the Canadian food environment.

Canada's new food guide

Canadians recognize dietitians as a trustworthy and credible source of nutrition advice. Dietitians are regulated health professionals who are passionate about the potential of food to enhance lives and improve health – and Dietitians of Canada (DC) is proud to be the leading voice of this vibrant, relevant and evolving profession. We represent a diverse and skilled community of thought leaders who are sought after for their expertise across all areas of food, nutrition and health.

The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics is the world's largest organization of food and nutrition professionals representing more than 112,000 credentialed practitioners — registered dietitian nutritionists, dietetic technicians, registered, and other dietetics and nutrition professionals holding undergraduate and advanced degrees in nutrition and dietetics, and students — and is committed to improving the nation's health and advancing the profession of dietetics through research, education and advocacy.

The Evidence Review Cycle for Dietary Guidance (ERC) is Health Canada's ongoing systematic approach to gathering, assessing, and analyzing scientific evidence relevant to dietary guidance. This process helps to ensure that dietary guidance from Health Canada on healthy eating, such as Canada's Food Guide, remains scientifically sound, current, relevant, and useful. The ERC examines evidence in three key input areas that inform dietary guidance: Scientific Basis; Relevance in the Canadian Context; and Use of Existing Dietary Guidance (Figure 1). The current Food, Nutrients and Health: Interim Evidence Update 2018 focuses specifically on one of the key areas of the ERC—the Scientific Basis.

Food recalls, safety standards, Canada's food guide, allergies and intolerances, how we monitor and measure food consumption.

FAO assists Member Countries to develop, revise and implement food-based dietary guidelines and food guides in line with current scientific evidence. FAO also carries out periodic reviews on progress made in the development and use of dietary guidelines, tracking changes in their overall focus and orientation. More than 100 countries worldwide have developed food-based dietary guidelines that are adapted to their nutrition situation, food availability, culinary cultures and eating habits. In addition countries publish food guides, often in the form of food pyramids and food plates, which are used for consumer education

A collection of Statistics Canada resources related to the topic 'nutrition'.

The Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC) is a leader in online global nutrition information. Located at the National Agricultural Library (NAL) of the United States Department of Agriculture, the FNIC website contains over 2500 links to current and reliable nutrition information.