Nutrition

Our community nutritionists support healthy eating, which prevents chronic disease and promotes healthy growth and development.

Community Nutritionists work to support healthy eating and the enjoyment of food by:

• Promoting healthy attitudes about food, eating, and body size,
• Encouraging sharing food with family and friends,
• Promoting food security,
• Promoting healthy growth and development,
• Promoting healthy weights without dieting, and
• Promoting wellness to prevent chronic disease

Services for adults

Nutrition counsellors work with adults 18 years of age and older that have a wide variety of health conditions. Counsellors also help with chronic disease prevention and management.

Services for infants, children and youthCommunity nutritionists work in community health centres and with schools to ensure children have access to the best nutrition programs and parents have the information they need to help their children eat well.Meal servicesOur meal services provide hot and nourishing food to people in need such as home bound seniors and people with disabilities. Meals on Wheels brings hot meals to people’s homes and Wheels to Meals brings people to places like neighbourhood houses where they can enjoy hot meals with others.

We also offer services such as Shop By Phone and Group Shopping to people who have difficultly getting groceries.  

Nutrition services

Click on the links for the services you are interested in learning more about. Links will take you to the Find Services directory listing, which includes descriptions, contact details and related documents for our services.

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