Healthy Eating

PARL subscribes to the Gale Health and Wellness Resource Center database. This service is available free to anyone with a Library card. Not only can you access thousands of articles, pamphlets and fact sheets on various health topics but also informative video files. Below are links to a sampling of the many resources from the database available on the subject of Healthy Eating.

How to Make Healthy Choices While Dining Out

Test your Nutrition Intuition

Healthy Skills for Your Grill

Food Facts: Decoding the Nutrition Label

What You Need to Know about Multi-Vitamins

How to Have a Diet Rich in Antioxidants

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These books are just a small sample of books on the topic of healthy eating from our collection. Please search the online catalogue for a more complete listing.

• The complete nutrition guide for women: staying healthy with diet, nutrients and supplements
• he Men's health big book of food & nutrition: your completely delicious guide to eating well, looking great, and staying lean for life!
• 10 steps to healthy eating: how to boost energy, manage weight and prevent disease with food, diet and nutrition
• Power foods: 150 delicious recipes with the 38 healthiest ingredients
• Food politics: what everyone needs to know
• Food rules: an eater's manual
• Healthy sin foods: decadence without the guilt
• Fat: an appreciation of a misunderstood ingredient, with recipes
• Foods that fight disease: a nutrition guide to staying healthy for life
• The antioxidant prescription: how to use the power of antioxidants to prevent disease and stay healthy for life

Try this Subject Heading for more materials

• Nutrition

Nutritionist, Department of Public Health, GASHA
Martha Centre, Suite 200
23 Bay Street
Antigonish, NS, B2G 2G7
Phone: Karen MacKinnon (902) 747-3367
Qualified professional nutritionist works with individuals, families, community groups and schools to promote good nutritional practices.

Public Health Services - Pictou County Health Authority
825 East River Rd.
Aberdeen Professional Centre 2nd Floor,
New Glasgow, NS, B2H 3S6
Phone: (902) 752-5151
Fax: (902) 755-7175
Leah Poirier, Public Health Dietitian
Phone: (902) 752-7600 Ext. 3335

Aberdeen Hospital Outpatient Dietitian
Contact: (902) 752-7600 ext 2590

Nutrition support classes are held at:

• Sobey's Aberdeen Mall Store, 610 East River Rd. , New Glasgow , NS , B2H 3S2
  Phone: (902) 752-1066
• Westside Store, 38 George St. , New Glasgow , NS , B2H 2K1
  Phone: (902) 755-9777
  Contact: Sobeys Dietitian Jennalle Butcher, BScAHN, PDt(c).
  Email: jennalle.butcher@sobeys.com
  Voicemail: 902-755-3645
• Check out the Sobeys Dieticians NEW-trition Newsletter
  

Dietitians of Canada
Website: http://www.dietitians.ca/
Provides trusted evidence-based nutrition information you can use.

Health Canada Nutrition & Healthy Eating
Website: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/nutrition/index_e.html

Canada's Food Guide
Website: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/food-guide-aliment/index_e.html

EATracker
Website: http://www.eatracker.ca
EATracker lets you track your day's food and activity choices and compares them to the guidelines laid out by Health Canada.

Mayo Clinic Nurtition and Healthy Eating
Website: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/food-and-nutrition/NU99999

Mayo Clinic on Anorexia nervosa
Website: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/anorexia/DS00606

Mayo Clinic on Bulimia nervosa
Website: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/bulimia/DS00607

Mayo Clinic on Eating Disorders
Website: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/eating-disorders/DS00294