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Food Affordability in Ontario
Posted on :Thursday,10 April, 2025
ODPH in partnership with Public Health Ontario (PHO) has released a new report: Food Insecurity and Food Affordability in Ontario / L’insécurité alimentaire et l’abordabilité des aliments en Ontario.
This report is the first to combine public health unit data on food costs to create a provincial overview of food affordability in Ontario. It examines the high prevalence and impacts of household food insecurity in Ontario, highlighting the risk faced by households dependent on social...
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Weight Inclusive Approach to Public Health
Posted on :Friday,12 July, 2024
Ontario Dietitians in Public Health (ODPH) is pleased to announce the release of our updated position statement on a weight-inclusive approach to addressing weight stigma in public health and beyond. You can read the full position statement, executive summary, resources for further learning and scenarios appendix here: https://www.odph.ca/addressing-weight-bias-resources .
The position statement identifies weight bias and the resulting stigma and discrimination as a significant public health problem and...
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The child care menu planning guidelines have been updated!
Posted on :Monday, 4 March, 2024
The Child Care Menu Planning - Practical Guide has been updated to help child care providers ensure all meals, snacks, and beverages served in child care settings meet healthy eating recommendations for children one year of age or older.
It includes information on:
menu planning
foods and beverages
amounts to prepare
sample menu.
Click here to download your copy or to access additional menu planning resources.
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ODPH Recognizes National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day
Posted on :Thursday,28 September, 2023
In recognition of September 30th as the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, ODPH
acknowledges that food has been used as a weapon against Indigenous peoples to
disconnect them from their land, culture, language, identity and well-being.
Instead of providing sustenance to support the growth
and development of children, starvation experiments and purposeful withholding of
nutrients for human deficiency experimentation occurred at residential schools.
This was done as part of a system intent on...
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Updated food insecurity position statement now available
Posted on :Wednesday, 2 December, 2020
ODPH's updated position statement on food insecurity can now be found as part of the No Money For Food is…Cent$less campaign. ODPH recommends effective responses for the urgent public health problem of food insecurity, a situation which has only gotten worse with the COVID-19 pandemic. Read the executive summary and full position statement at https://www.odph.ca/odph-position-statement-on-responses-to-food-insecurity-1 . An infographic is available at ...
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