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Food and nutrition are an important part of maintaining our overall health. Making the right food choices for your body can change the way you feel every day.

Eating in a healthy way can be one step to better managing a health concern, preventing others or helping you achieve your health goals. If you are looking to understand how to eat differently — like finding ways to balance your meals, eating regularly or adjusting your overall nutrition — we can help.

How we can help

Working collaboratively with your family doctor, members of our Health Team can support you to make healthy and sustainable lifestyle changes.

Registered Nurse – offer strategies for healthier lifestyle habits and can help you set achievable health goals, including healthy eating, the right amount of physical activity for you and managing your stress or sleep.

Registered Dietitian — through group workshops and one-on-one appointments, our registered dietitians offer nutrition advice and information based on your individual health concerns and can help you set personal nutrition goals.

Related workshops

Try one of our free workshops to support healthy eating.

  • Ask a Dietitian covers the basics of cholesterol, diabetes and achieving your best weight through healthy behaviours.
  • Craving Change helps you discover the situations, thoughts and emotions that affect your food choices and cravings.

Ask a Dietitian

Get answers to your food and nutrition-related questions. Our free Ask a Dietitian group workshops cover the fundamentals of cholesterol, diabetes and achieving your best weight through healthy behaviours. Along with learning from registered dietitians, you will have the chance…

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Craving Change

Find out why you eat the way you do (and what to do about it). Ever feel full but find you keep eating anyway? Do you find yourself craving certain foods at specific times or in response to specific emotions?…

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Documents

Top tips for eating healthy 

Healthy Eating Checklist

A chart to track progress on eating goals including some examples.

Monthly goal setting

Five tips for planning meals.

Meal planning

Tips for how to use leftovers.  

Making food last longer

A scale for measuring levels of hunger including the ideal zone. 

Hunger scale

Find tips on keeping food bills manageable.

Grocery shopping on a budget
Factors that influence weight

Find options for buying groceries and meals in the city.  

Calgary grocery and meal resources

External resources

These external links may be helpful in learning more about healthy eating.

Canada's Food Guide

A breakdown of healthy eating as well as recipes and resources.

Read Canada's Food Guide

Alberta Health Services — SCREEN-8 Self-Screen

A short questionnaire to determine if you could use more nutrition education and support.

SCREEN-8 questionnaire

Alberta Health Services — nutrition education and information

Searchable nutrition information and resources for a variety of ages.  

Nutrition education and information

MyHealth Alberta — healthy eating

Information for Albertans on how to make healthy eating choices. 

Healthy eating