You can promote healthy eating decisions in a variety of ways. One way is to provide visual cues, such as on posters or monitors, to support healthy eating behaviours. Encourage patrons to enjoy a variety of healthy foods each day, including the options you offer. Promotional materials are available in a variety of formats and dimensions to suit different settings.

To create supportive food environments for healthy eating, food guide-friendly principles can be used in settings where foods and drinks are offered or sold. There are three areas for action to help you to make improvements in your setting.  Each area includes principles to help you improve your food environment.  

Food environments influence the food and drink decisions people make. Offering healthier options – and favourably placing, pricing and promoting them – can make healthy eating easier. Make small changes over time to create a supportive environment for healthy eating.

Health Canada continues to gather and assess evidence across the three key input areas: scientific basis, Canadian context, and use of guidance.

Summaries of the evidence underpinning dietary guidance, published since the development of the Evidence Review Cycle (ERC), are:

The Evidence Review Cycle (ERC) is composed of several phases, and is designed to be iterative and flexible. Each phase of the ERC follows its own process and may include multiple steps. Phases may overlap or repeat before continuing through the rest of the ERC.

Health Canada uses a systematic approach to ensure that Canada’s dietary guidance remains up to date and credible. It is known as the Evidence Review Cycle (ERC) for dietary guidance.