Healthy Community

Eating well is much easier with supportive information at your fingertips. Here are a few tips:

• Consult Canada's Food Guide for a variety of healthy food choices.
• For healthy and delicious recipes, visit EatRight Ontario.
• Use EATracker to check your food and activity choices, analyze your recipes and plan your meals.
• Assess your weight, eating habits and your level of physical activity here.
• Healthy eating on a budget? Consult the Porcupine Health Unit.
• The Eat Well and be Active Educational Toolkit is designed to help those who teach groups of children and adults about healthy eating and physical activity, and encourage individuals to take action to maintain and improve their health.
• Find more healthy eating resources here.

Questions on healthy eating? To talk to a registered dietician at EatRight Ontario by calling toll-free 1-877-510-5102.

Kapuskasing offers many facilities, parks and sporting and leisure clubs for you to enjoy and participate in.

Kapuskasing encourages you to add some kilometres to your life by exploring one or more of its identified routes and trails.

Physical Activity Guides & Guidelines

Canada's physical activity guide teaches us that being active is fun at home, at school, indoors or outdoors. Download the following Physical Activity Guides for:

• Youth
• Older Adults

How often should we be active? What activities are recommended? Find out by consulting the Canadian Physical Activity Guidelines for your age group:

• Early Years (0-4 years)
• Children (5-11 years)
• Youth (12-17 years)
• Adults (18-64 years)
• Older Adults (65 years and older)