Canada’s Food Guide: Food Guide Snapshot
The Food Guide Snapshot provides infor about healthy eating. It encourages people to eat a variety of healthy foods and also considers how, where, and when people eat.
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Healthy Food Guidelines for First Nations Communities
This guide helps First Nations communities make healthier food choices and improve the food environment. It covers traditional foods, healthy eating, food programs, gardening, food preparation and healthy food choices at community events.
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7-Day Caribbean Healthy Meal Plan
This resource provides a 7-day meal plan using dishes from different Caribbean kitchens. The meals are designed to be diabetes friendly, with balanced carbohydrates and portion sizes.
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Locally-Grown African/Caribbean Food Guide
The guide helps people in Toronto find African and Caribbean foods that are grown locally. It provides information about farmers, farmers’ markets and food retailers where culturally familiar foods can be found.
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Bok Choy, Black Beans, Bananas… A Newcomer’s Guide to Healthy Eating
A culturally responsive healthy-eating guide developed by Access Alliance Multicultural Community Health Centre to support newcomers in navigating food, nutrition, shopping, food safety, and food-access resources in Toronto. The guide was informed by community consultations and focus groups…
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Diabetes: Balancing Meals with Carbohydrate Counting – Adapted for African and Caribbean Communities
A culturally adapted diabetes nutrition education resource that explains carbohydrate counting and provides practical guidance for balancing meals. It identifies culturally familiar carbohydrate foods and provides portion sizes equivalent to approximately 15 g of carbohydrate. Foods include yam,…
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Ubuntu Framework
A City of Toronto framework for confronting anti-Black racism.
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Just the Basics: Tips for Healthy Eating (now updated as Getting Started: Healthy Eating and Diabetes)
This guide provides basic information about healthy eating, diabetes prevention and diabetes management. It covers food choices, portion sizes, meal planning, physical activity and healthy lifestyle habits
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Healthy Eating with Diabetes: African and Caribbean
This guide shares simple information about healthy eating, preventing diabetes, and managing diabetes. It uses familiar African and Caribbean foods and meals to help explain healthy food choices, portion sizes, meal planning, and the importance of staying active.
