HEALTHY LIVING TIPS

General Healthy Living Resources

Reports:

• Investing in Prevention: Special Report (September, 2010) (PDF)

Physical Activity

Publications:

• Canada's Physical Activity Guide to Healthy Active Living (PDF)
• Canada's Physical Activity Guide for Children
• Canada's Physical Activity Guide for Youth
• Canada's Physical Activity Guide to Healthy Active Living for Older Adults

Reports:

• The Cost of Physical Inactivity in British Columbia (PDF)

Links:

• Active Communities
• British Columbia Recreation and Parks Association

Healthy Eating

Publications:

• Baby’s Best Chance: Parents' Handbook of Pregnancy and Baby Care

• Toddler’s First Steps

• Food Flair

• Healthy Choices in the Recreation Setting: Toolkit

• ActNow BC Healthy Recipes
• Healthy Eating for Seniors

• Baby's First Foods

• Feeding Your Toddler with Love and Good Food (PDF)
• Healthy Eating: Cheap and Easy (PDF)
• Quick Reference for Healthier Food Choices (PDF)
• Senior Chef: Cooking for One or Two (PDF)
• ActNow BC Healthy Recipes (PDF)
• Eating Well With Canada's Food Guide
• Eat Smart Meet Smart

Links:

• Dietitian Services @ Healthlink BC
• Eat Together
• Healthy Eating and Food Security

Healthy Schools

Publications:

• Caffeine and the Student Body (PDF)
• Dental Health: School Food and Beverage Sales (PDF)
• Fat and Trans Fat: What Schools Need to Know (PDF)
• Healthier Foods: How to Make Fun-Fast-Food Healthier for Students (PDF)
• How Sweet It Is! What Schools Need to Know About Sugar and Artificial Sweeteners (PDF)
• Tool for Stocking Healthy Foods in Schools (PDF)

Reports:

• Guidelines for Food and Beverage Sales in B.C. Schools (PDF)
• School Food Sales and Policies Provincial Report (PDF)

Links:

• ActionSchools! BC
• Active and Safe Routes to School
• Eat Well, Play Well
• Making It Happen: Healthy Eating at School
• The Directorate of Agencies for School Health
• Tips and Recipes for Quantity Cooking: Nourishing Minds and Bodies

Healthy Work Environments

Reports:

• Evaluation Report for B.C. Ministry of Health Stairway to Health Initiative (PDF)

Links:

• Healthy Work Environments
• Business Case for Active Living at Work (Public Health Agency of Canada)
• Canada's Healthy Workplace Month
• National Quality Institute

Healthy Pregnancies

Publications:

• Canada’s Food Guide – Advice for Women of Childbearing Age

• Baby’s Best Chance: Parents' Handbook of Pregnancy and Baby Care

• Healthy Eating: Choose Fish Low in Mercury

• Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: A Strategic Plan for British Columbia

Reports:

• Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: A Strategic Plan for British Columbia (PDF)

Healthy Weight

Reports:

• Cost of Obesity in British Columbia (PDF)

Tobacco

Reports:

• Targeting Our Efforts: B.C.'s Tobacco Control Strateyg (PDF)
• An Aboriginal Tobacco Strategy for British Columbia (PDF)

Links:

• Quitnow.ca
• Quitters Unite
• Tobacco Control Program
• Health Canada's First Nations and Inuit Health Tobacco Program
• Tobaccofreeschools.ca - Teens Against Tobacco
• Health Canada: Tobacco Use