Healthy Eating Resources

The Alberta Healthy Living Program (AHLP) is an integrated community-based chronic disease management program.

The program includes the following services:

• Patient education, including disease-specific and general health and lifestyle topics 
• Self-management support through Better Choices, Better Health™ workshops, tools and messaging 
• Supervised exercises (facility- or home-based)

Services may also include specialty services and services targeting diverse and vulnerable populations.  Group sessions are available on various topics including heart health, weight management, label reading and healthy cooking.

OKI!

The First Nations Healthy Choice Recipes book was developed bringing together traditional Indigenous foods with modern Canadian meals. This book includes recipes from communities across Canada. These recipes can be enjoyed by everyone and are based on traditional Indigenous recipes. The cookbook was originally prepared by the Southern Alberta Aboriginal Diabetes Coalition in 2003 with the first print issue in 2004. The recipe book contains 125 recipes as well as tips for eating and living well, suggestions for keeping fit, and easy-on-the-wallet grocery shopping ideas. 

Six main objectives of the recipe book were to: 
1) Encourage traditional Indigenous foods 
2) Promote healthy eating and active living 
3) Provide food budgeting information 
4) Increase food safety knowledge
5) Increase nutrition resources for Indigenous people.  

The recipe book is designed to increase healthy, affordable eating as well as promoting healthy lifestyles while maintaining the traditional Indigenous lifestyles throughout Canada. The goals for the recipe book are to simply share healthy recipes, keeping traditions alive and increasing awareness of the need for healthy living for Indigenous people throughout generations. 
 

Healthy Eating Starts Here: Steps to a Healthier You helps Albertans understand what it means to eat healthy and how to make personal changes in their eating habits where they live, work, learn or play. Visit this site for Nutrition Workshops, Classes, Nutrition Education, Recipes and more.

Creating healthy meals and snacks can be simple when you use the Canada’s food guide plate. Order copies of the Canada food guide in English and multiple languages here.

This toolkit supports program providers and health professionals who work with newcomers to Canada. It is a collection of nutrition teaching resources for people who are English language learners and have diverse cultural backgrounds.

Wellspring Alberta offers free programs without referral to help you live better with cancer.

Healthy eating plays a critical role in wellness, but sometimes cancer and its treatments can make it challenging to know what to eat. Nourish is an online, evidence-based program that dispels nutritional myths, provides the latest recommendations on cancer-related eating, and offers helpful tips for selecting and preparing the foods patients will feel better eating while undergoing treatment or living with a longer-term cancer prognosis. 

Wellspring’s Nourish program covers a variety of nutritional topics through education and demonstration. Sessions include proven recipes and guidance from a professional dietitian with cancer experience. 

Demonstration sessions are delivered in a kitchen by a Registered Dietitian, Nourish programs provide educational content, preparation demonstrations, sampling, and take-home program materials and recipes.  

If you or a loved one is living with cancer, Wellspring is here to help. We can help you overcome the emotional, physical and practical challenges you may be experiencing. Join Wellspring for FREE here

You can use this information to help support you before, during and after your pregnancy.

You will find handouts on important nutrition topics, practical information about eating during pregnancy and lactation, and learn how you can speak with a dietitian.

The website also includes a series of short, animated videos on prenatal nutrition topics. The videos provide general nutrition guidance to address common questions about nutrition for pregnancy. The Nutrition and Pregnancy video series includes:

- Multivitamins and Pregnancy - 1 video

- Eating Well for Pregnancy - 4 videos

These tools provide sports nutrition recommendations and teaching tools for school and community coaches to guide recreational athletes and active youth aged 12 to 18 years. Includes nutrition and hydration advice before, during, and after activity, and information on vegetarian eating, and nutrition supplements. The handbook also outlines ways in which coaches can help athletes create healthier eating environments at home, at school, while traveling and in recreation centres.

Fueling for Sports Nutrition Infographic Posters - to display in gyms, locker rooms or recreation centres as a visual learning tool:

- What to Eat Before Activity

- What to Eat During and After Activity

- Hydration Before, During and After Activity

- Planning for Tournaments, Competition and Travel

Learning tools to share with youth and their parents:

- Eating for Activity

- Hydration for Activity

- Tournaments and Travel