Population and Public Health Services: Nutrition Services

Population and Public Health Services promotes the best possible nutritional health for everyone. Public Health Nutritionists are part of a population health promotion team. They work with a variety of community partners (at the local, provincial and national level) to help residents make healthy food choices, to develop nutrition standards and healthy public policy. They address issues like food security, breastfeeding, early childhood and school nutrition, heart health, and disordered eating.

Click here to read nutrition articles written by RQHR Population and Public Health Nutritionists.

Check out the Dietitians of Canada web site for fact sheets and other helpful resources.
Click here to view Information from Health Canada about food and nutrition.

Disordered Eating

Click here for Community Resources for the Treatment of Disordered Eating Within the Regina Qu'Appelle Health Region.

Click here for information on the Regina Network on Disordered Eating.

Menu Planning for Health

The key to preparing healthy meals is planning ahead, whether you are making them for yourself, a family, a small facility or large institution. The Public Health Nutritionists of Saskatchewan have developed a meal planning resource that will make the job easier. The resource contains helpful information on how to develop a menu, which foods to include for a healthy diet, tips for preparing quick and easy meals, and which foods are the best buy for your dollar.

Click here to view the menu planning guide.

Lunch To Go - Food Safety Tips
Publication courtesy of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.

Nutrition Education for Teachers

For information about workshops for grade kindergarten to grade three teachers click here.

Nutrition Update

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The Nutrition Update is a provincial newsletter of the Public Health Nutritionists of Saskatchewan Working Group. It is produced three to four times a year and contains the latest news on nutrition initiatives and resources.

Read the Update for information on the Saskatchewan Working Group and for tips on healthy nutrition.

Click here to view the winter 2008 issue.

Click here to view the March 2004 issue.

Click here to view the winter 2003 issue.

Food and Nutrition Articles

Public Health Nutritionists with Population and Public Health Services are members of a provincial group, the Public Health Nutritionists of Saskatchewan Working Group (PHNSWG). This group writes weekly newspaper columns on nutrition and health that are distributed to newspapers throughout Saskatchewan.

For more articles written by the PHNSWG visit the Association of Saskatchewan Home Economists (ASHE) Web site homefamily.net or click here.

Food Security
Population and Public Health Services, along with other community researchers, has published a report on food security in our community.