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No matter what your age, achieving and maintaining a healthy weight is one of the best ways to feel great and lower your risk of disease such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes. Use the Body Mass Index and Waist/Hip Ratio to help you determine where you stand on the scale of things and stepping your way to a healthier you!

For a one-on-one consultation, Angela is simply a phone call or email away.

Body Mass Index (BMI)

The BMI is a ratio of your height to your weight. Research shows that a BMI above or below the healthy range (18.5 - 24.9) can increase your risk of poor health outcomes. Use the following link to enter your height and weight to determine your BMI. The accompanying chart allows you to find out whether your BMI falls within the healthy range.

Find the chart here

Waist Circumference

While BMI is a measure of your excess weight, your waist circumference measures where you carry extra weight. If you carry fat mainly around your waist, you are more likely to develop health problems than if you carry fat mainly in your hips and thighs. This is true even if your BMI falls within the normal range.

To measure your waist circumference, place a measuring tape around your bare abdomen just above your hip bone. This is usually at the level of your navel. Be sure that the tape is snug, but does not compress your skin, and is parallel to the floor. Relax, exhale, and measure your waist.

Women with a waist measurement of more than 35 inches (89 cm) or men with a waist measurement of more than 40 inches (102 cm) may have a higher risk of disease than people with smaller waist measurements because of where their fat lies.

No matter what your age, achieving and maintaining a healthy weight is one of the best ways to feel great and lower your risk of disease such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes. Use the Body Mass Index and Waist/Hip Ratio to help you determine where you stand on the scale of things.

For a one-on-one consultation Angela is simply a phone call or email away

Eat Tracker

EATracker lets you track your day's food and activity choices and compares them to the guidelines laid out by Health Canada. For more details about the recommendations, their interpretation and data sources view the EATracker backgrounder

EATracker assesses your food choices and provides personalized feedback on your total intake of energy (calories) and essential nutrients and compares this to what is recommended for your age, gender, and activity level. It also determines your body mass index (BMI) and provides information to help you achieve and maintain a healthy weight.

Not only can you track your food and activity choices but you can review your progress over time! To "get tracking", click on "Take the Assessment" and see how you measure up. You can also view a demonstration of EATracker. Once you complete the initial assessment, you will need to register to access EATracker.

The main objective of EATracker is to help you better understand your eating and activity choices. EATracker is not meant to replace medical advice. If you need more personal nutrition advice or are following a specific diet that affects your food choices please contact us . If you need personal activity advice you should contact a certified fitness consultant at your local fitness centre.

The accuracy of your EATracker results is based on the information you enter.

EATracker is appropriate for individuals 14 years and older.

Recommended Sports Nutrition Texts

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Practical Sports Nutrition, Louise Burke, ISBN-13: 9780736086370
Practical Sports Nutrition provides detailed, sport-specific advice that enables you to approach individual athletes and teams with an understanding of their sport and unique nutritional needs.

Sport Nutrition for Coaches, Leslie Bonci, ISBN-13: 9780736086103
Sport Nutrition for Coaches answers the call from coaches and other fitness professionals for a text to help them teach athletes the nutrition habits for optimal performance. This practical book, written specifically for coaches by sport nutrition expert Leslie Bonci, includes several planning tools.

Sports Nutrition: From Lab to Kitchen, Asker Jeunkendrup,
Diabetics Athlete Handbook, ISBN-13: 9780736083003

Vegetarian Athlete Handbook, D. Enette Larson-Meyer  ISBN-13: 9780736084307
This comprehensive resource simplifies the process of determining your energy, protein, vitamin, and mineral needs and monitoring carbohydrate and fat intake. You’ll learn how to optimize a vegetarian diet for peak performance across all sports.

Nancy Clark’s Sports Nutrition Guidebook, 4th Ed, Nancy Clarke, ISBN-13: 9780736080866
Updated and on the cutting edge, the fourth edition includes the latest sports nutrition research on hydration and fluid intake, vitamins, supplements, energy drinks, organic foods, and the role of carbohydrate and protein during exercise.