
Working with Grocers to Support Healthy Eating
Supporting and promoting healthy eating within the food retail environment shows promise as a means to positively influence consumption of nutritious foods. Social and physical environments influence food choice. The efforts of many sectors, including food retail can help to create supportive environments to improve the nutritional health of Canadians.
This Health Canada report outlines trends influencing the food retail environment and consumer purchasing behaviour. It summarizes promising interventions from the literature and profiles experiences from Canadian programs to help us understand how the food retail environment could support healthy eating. The report also provides suggestions for program development, implementation, and evaluation.
Resource Information
Date
June 1, 2013
Author
Health Canada
Type
Report
Setting
Community-at-large, Grocery/Retail
Age
Children (4-11), Youth (12-17), Adults (18-64), Older Adults (65 and over)
Topic
Chronic Disease Prevention, Food Environment, Healthy Eating
Language
English
Jurisdiction
National
Tags
chronic disease prevention, food environment, obesity, retail