Healthy Eating

When it comes to healthy eating, education and access to nutritious foods are key. The goal of the Healthy Eating Strategy is to make healthy food more readily available and provide BC families with the skills and knowledge necessary for making sound snack and meal choices.

In today’s busy world, food selection and preparation doesn’t just happen in the kitchen. That's why BCHLA plans to reach families where they work, play and learn.

Click here to read the entire BCHLA Healthy Eating Strategy

BCHLA Initiatives are:

Healthy Food and Beverages at School, Work and Play
Making changes in schools, recreation facilities and local government buildings

Farm to School Salad Bar
Bringing fresh, locally-grown produce directly to BC kids

Food Skills for Families
Helping BC's most vulnerable families learn to select and prepare healthy food

Sip Smart!
Teaching BC kids to stop the pop habit
 

Sustainability

The Community Capacity Building Strategy, an initiative of the BC Healthy Living Alliance led by the Canadian Cancer Society, brings community members together to build their collective capacity for healthy living. Given fiscal restraint and the need for resiliency, it was a critical time for the Healthy Eating (HE) community to come together to explore how they could sustain the momentum built together towards Healthy Eating for British Columbians and create a shared vision for the future. Working with an ad hoc planning committee comprised of different stakehoulders from the HE community a meeting was planned.

On October 27, 2009, committed organizations engaged in the building of the healthy eating environment in BC met to:

1. Identify the priority components and best practices important to pursue as we build for the future.
2. Identify possible collaborative activities or opportunities to sustain the gains made to date.
3. Outline next steps that will move the Healthy Eating community forward together to support more British Columbians to eat well.

Since then, two additional meetings have been held on Healthy Eating At Schools Program Delivery and School Policy and Healthy Eating in BC Communities - Food Production, Skill Building/Behaviour Change Program Delivery, Advocacy, Policy, Food Systems Change. Proceeding and minutes of subsequent meetings are posted here to share with member of the the Healthy Eating Community.
 

• Proceedings Healthy Eating Community Meeting October 27, 2009
• Group 1 and 6 Healthy Eating At Schools Program Delivery & School Policy
• Group 2 to 5  Healthy Eating in BC Communities – Food Production, Skill Building /Behaviour Change Program Delivery, Advocacy, Policy, Food Systems Change

 
Read more about our Healthy Eating initiative activities:

• Click here for our Healthy Eating Strategy Update - Spring 2009

Goals and Targets

The goal of the BCHLA Healthy Eating Strategy is to implement activities that will help achieve the BCHLA targets for 2010:

• 7 out of 10 British Columbians will eat at least five servings of vegetables and fruits per day.
• 7 out of 10 British Columbians will be at a healthy weight.

To achieve these targets, BCHLA has three objectives to support British Columbians:

• To build skills and knowledge that lead to greater consumption of vegetables and fruit.

• To improve access to vegetables and fruit for all British Columbians.

• To decrease access to, and consumption of, unhealthy foods and beverages