New Webinar – Refocusing Canada’s Food Guide
Posted: March 7, 2017
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In light of current health challenges, how can we improve Canada’s food guide? The Nutrition Resource Centre (NRC) is holding a webinar on refocusing the food guide on overall diet quality on Thursday, March 23rd, from 12-1pm.
The Food Guide was first published in 1942; the next version of Eating Well with Canada’s Food Guide is expected to be released in 2018 and an online dietary guidance policy report is anticipated this year.
As per their website, the NRC, funded by the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, has operated under the Ontario Public Health Association since 1999 and is one of 14 health promotion resource centres in Ontario. Their mission is to strengthen the capacity of health promotion professionals and community partners involved in healthy eating and nutrition across the health continuum.
You will learn about suggestions for improving the development process and recommendations within the guide for promoting healthy eating and preventing chronic diseases and obesity. Evidence from population dietary intakes and the food environment will be presented.
According to the NRC, The presenter, Dr. Mary L’abbé, is the Earle W. McHenry Professor and Chair of the Department of Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, at the University of Toronto, where she leads a research group on Food and Nutrition Policy for Population Health. Dr. L’Abbé is an expert in public health nutrition, nutrition policy and food and nutrition regulations with a long career in mineral nutrition research.
This webinar is part of the NRC’s new webinar series, Eating for the 21st Century.
Register here.