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Reducing Food Waste in Ontario: Halton Food’s 2017 Food Waste Symposium
May 1, 2017
Tackling food waste in Ontario.
Canada’s Food: What’s On the Table?
April 21, 2017
What do changing trade policies south of the border have in store for Canada? Dr. Evan Fraser, Director of the Arell Food Institute at the University of Guelph, fills us in!
Summary of April 2017 MOHLTC Webinar on the Healthy Menu Choices Act, 2015
April 6, 2017
Learn more about Ontario's Healthy Menu Choices Act, 2015 and the responsibilities of government, industry and public health units in Ontario.
The Case of Artificial Sweeteners – What Does the Current Evidence Suggest?
March 28, 2017
This post is part of Dietitians of Canada's Nutrition Month (held in March every year) and was submitted by Sanaz Baradaran, a registered dietitian and a member of the College of Dietitians of Ontario
Take the Fight out of Food: When Nutrition Facts and Fads get Fuzzy
March 22, 2017
This post is part of Dietitians of Canada's Nutrition Month (held in March every year) and was submitted by Jessica Zupan, a dietitan who works for a diabetes education program for the Taddle Creek Family Health Team in Toronto.
A Necessary Food Fight: Marketing of Foods and Beverages to Children
March 14, 2017
This post is part of Dietitians of Canada's Nutrition Month (held in March every year) and was submitted by Carol Dombrow, a nutrition consultant for Heart & Stroke.
Let’s Take A Food-First Approach To Healthy Aging
March 7, 2017
This post is part of our Dietitians of Canada's Nutrition Month (held in March every year) blogging campaign, and was submitted by Hilary Dunn, the program manager of the nutrition research group Agri-Food for Healthy Aging (A-HA).
Take the Fight out of Food – How to Make Healthy Choices for Type 1 Diabetes
February 28, 2017
This post is part of Dietitians of Canada's Nutrition Month (held in March every year) and was submitted by Rachael Countryman, a fourth year food and nutrition studentat Brescia University College at Western University who's been living with Type 1 Diabetes for 13 years.
Emerging Evidence on Beans & Blood Sugar – More Reasons to Love Beans!
February 15, 2017
This guest post is by Michelle Jaelin, a Toronto-based Registered Dietitian, Creative Nutrition Communicator and Writer at NutritionArtist.com. The post explores the health benefits of pulses.
Cooking and nutrition programs for male youth: A recipe for success
January 4, 2017
This post comes to us from Julia Fursova, a Health Promoter and Project Coordinator at The Four Villages Community Health Centre. She describes the development and lessons learned from the Guys Can Cook! program - an Ontario-based, cooking and nutrition program for youth males, rooted in food justice and anti-oppression frameworks.