key documents

• Healthy Dietary Choices for Children [PDF]

• School Health Environment Survey (SHES)- Report and Recommendations

• Ontario Public Health Standards

• Public Health Nutrition Practice in Canada – Reports from the Pan Canadian Task Force on Public Health Nutrition Practice

• Improving the odds [PDF]
  Improving the Odds document is a revised version replacing the 2004 version OSNPPH submitted to the Ontario College of Family Physicians (OCFP). Improving the Odds will appear as an appendix P "Nutrition Guidelines for Public Health" in the "Improving the Odds: Healthy Child Development" a document of OCFP, and will be available for all family physicians and other practitioners in Ontario.

• Supersize Me: A Discussion Guide for Educators [PDF]
  This discussion guide has been developed in response to educators requesting a tool to help with the use of the movie Super Size Me in the classroom. We are not encouraging the use of, or endorsing, this movie and we recommend that Super Size Me only be shown in classrooms with guided discussion around the sensitive and controversial subjects presented. Be aware of stereotypes and discriminatory attitudes presented, and be sure to address these in your classroom discussion. We do not feel Super Size Me is appropriate for students below the grade 6 level.

• Call to Action: Creating a Healthy School Nutrition Environment [PDF]
  The Call to Action challenges the provincial government, boards of education, school communities and public health to acknowledge and act on their roles in establishing an environment that is supportive of healthy eating in Ontario schools. The OSNPPH School Nutrition Workgroup have made nine recommendations to address the importance of healthy eating in the school context and presents the link between nutritional health, learning and chronic disease in children and adolescents.

• Appel à l'action: Créer un milieu scholaire favorable à la saine nutrition [PDF]
  Cet appel à l'action met la province, les conseils de l'éducation, les communautés scolaires et les bureaux de santé au défi de reconnaître leur rôle à l'égard de la création d'un milieu scolaire favorable à la saine nutrition et de passer à l'action. Le Groupe de travail sur la nutrition à l'école de la Societé ontarienne des professionnel(le)s de nutrition en santé publique a formulé neuf recommandations fondées sur les charactéristiques essentielles d'un milieu scolaire favorable à la saine nutrition. Le rapport établit le lien entre la santé nutritionnelle, l'apprentissage et la prévention des maladies chroniques chez les enfants et les adolescents.

• Public Health Nutrition...An Investment in the Future [PDF]
  Public health nutrition professionals are essential to health units, bringing appropriate skills, and a unique perspective. They are the only Registered Dietitians who have the mandate to serve the entire community. Public health nutrition professionals bring many strengths to health units. By using their skills, health units can better meet the requirements of provincially mandated programs, and maximize health outcomes in their communities.

• Discover Healthy Eating
  Elementary school teachers can download their own copy of Discover Healthy Eating! This program support resource offers a choice of teaching activities that correspond to the Health and Physical Education Curriculum (1998). Background information, glossary and a listing of additionl resources are also included.