Healthy Eating

Tips and Recipes for Quantity Cooking: Nourishing Minds and Bodies
Tips and Recipes for Quantity Cooking: Nourishing Minds and Bodies has been created to assist people who prepare food for sale to students – such as food services staff, chef instructors, caterers, school teams, students, Parent Advisory Councils and others. It includes tips on how to choose healthy recipes, substitutions to make favourite recipes healthier…
Bake Better Bites: Recipes and Tips for Healthier Baked Goods
BakeBetterBites2014 is for parents, community volunteers, school staff, and students to use when preparing baked goods for sale to students. It includes recipes that meet the Guidelines for Food and Beverage Sales in BC Schools, as well as tips to make favourite recipes healthier. For more information, success stories and resources visit the Healthy Eating…
Making Health Fun(ny) in a Viral Age
Do we know how to talk to people about health? I think we still have a lot to learn about how to create fresh and approachable health messaging from professional marketers. We know that marketing to kids is a real and present health issue. But every once in a while there’s a bit of marketing…
Calories Front and Centre Can Lead to Better Choices
I would like to make a confession to the blog audience – I am a big fan of the peanut butter cookie. It’s one of those decadently unhealthy options that I find hard to pass up. The other day I was running between work and picking kids up for soccer practice and found myself in…
Make the month of love a little less sickly sweet…
February is the month where hearts are top of mind. It’s Heart Month for one thing, and down the hall from BCAHL our neighbours at the Heart and Stroke Foundation are super busy. But Valentine’s Day is around the corner too, and ads are out for candy, chocolate, even heart-shaped cakes. It’s a month of…
In BC, School Food Means Apples Not Deep Fryers
One of my all-time favourite things at my children’s school has been the hot lunch program. It made for happy, stress-free mornings. I felt good leaving lunchtime in the hands of the school district, with the assurance that they were following the Guidelines for Food and Beverages Sales in BC Schools (the Guidelines). I know…
Health Starts at Home – Food Security and Social Housing
On December 5th, 2013 BCAHL hosted a webinar on the ways that food security is and can be addressed in social housing. We were so pleased to have three engaging presenters who offered their perspectives on some of the current policy, research and programs on housing and food security. BCAHL believes that good health starts…
Announcing BC Childhood Healthy Weights Initiative
As part of BC’s Childhood Healthy Weights Intervention Initiative, the provincial government has provided funding to the Childhood Obesity Foundation for the implementation of MEND and the expansion of ShapedownBC. Mind, Exercise, Nutrition, Do It! (MEND) is a new program that provides healthy lifestyle learning and activity sessions for children 5-7 and 7-13 who are…
On The Path to Better Health
Future projections for chronic disease underscore the need to continue on this path and make prevention a priority. In the next ten years the number of new cancer cases in BC is expected to increase by 75%. Looking forward, we see that to continue tackling chronic disease and promoting healthy living for all, it will…
The Joy (or Pain) of Cooking
I just finished reading about an event being held this month at Vancouver’s “last working farm”, the UBC Farm. Joy of Feeding is an event that celebrates the joy food brings, both growing and cooking it, with foods from 16 different cultures prepared by 16 different home cooks. It sounds like an incredible celebration of…
Hearts, Flowers And A Little Less Salt
What does Valentine’s Day mean to you? For me, it means a number of little indulgences – like flowers, time together with loved ones and maybe a special dinner out. I am planning a little indulgence of my own in the form of Indian food from Vij’s, which I love! But I know that for…
“Are We There Yet?” Road Tripping and the Psychology of Food
I got back to my desk this morning after a five-day road trip to Portland and Southwest Washington State. An article came my way via the APHA and USA Today – From Brain to Mouth, the Psychology of Obesity, which outlined a number of studies being shared at the American Psychological Association’s annual general meeting.…

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