Resources

Active Living Resources

Canada’s Physical Activity Guide to Healthy Active Living
Includes benefits of regular physical activity, explains how much and the kind of activity you need to stay healthy and provides tips for getting started. Encouraging activity a home, at school, at work, at play and on the way! Includes information for those who aren't ready to change and those who are thinking about it.

Canada’s Physical Activity Guide for Older Adults
The Guide serves as a roadmap for older adults - explaining why physical activity is important, offering tips and easy ways to increase their physical activity, and stating how much is needed to maintain good health and improved quality of living later in life. Includes information for those who aren't ready to change and those who are thinking about it.

Handbook for Canada’s Physical Activity Guide to Healthy Active Living
Comprehensive guide to help implement the physical activity guide and use of vignettes as motivators to cover different ages and situations.

Canada’s Physical Activity Guide for Youth – Ages 10-14
Colourful, graphic guide to the physical activity recommendations endurance, flexibility & strength, for youth age 9 to 14. Focus on benefits, how to increase activity & some ideas to get started. Includes information for those who aren't ready to change and those who are thinking about it.

Canada’s Physical Activity Guide for Children – Ages 6-9
Colourful, graphic guide to the physical activity recommendation and benefits, endurance, flexibility & strength for children 5 to 9. Ideas for building activity throughout the day in periods of 10 minutes up to 90 minutes. Suggests cutting down on TV. Includes information for those who aren't ready to change and those who are thinking about it.

Walk This Way
Do you want to feel good and enjoy life? Sleep better? Have more energy? Reduce your risk of heart disease, diabetes and some cancers? The Walk this Way program includes information on identifying personal goals .scheduling walking into the day and tracking participation. It includes a calendar and user’s guide. It includes information for those who are thinking about change, those who are ready and taking steps to change and those who want to maintain an active lifestyle.

Walking – The Activity of a Lifetime
Colourful, graphic pamphlet that helps you design your own walking program—from how to get started, to creating goals for yourself—and includes safety aspects. Includes information for those who are ready to change and taking steps to build an active lifestyle.

Ready, Steady, Walk! Let’s Get Active
A concise pamphlet that encourages walking and ways to make it fun in your day-to-day life. See local inserts from Barrie, Midland, Collingwood, Orillia and Cookstown/Alliston. Includes information for those who are preparing and taking steps to build an active lifestyle, and those who want to maintain their activity.

Ready to Explore! Loop Trails
Trail ideas in Simcoe County

Posters:

Walking is Your Health's Best Friend
This is a cartoon style  (Lynn Johnson) poster of a man  walking two lively dogs . It encourages 30 minutes a day of walking as a means of staying healthy by achieving and maintaining a healthy body weight, preserving bone mass and being good for your heart. The target audience is mature adults and youth.   

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Healthy Eating Healthy Weights Resources

Eating Well with Canada’s Food Guide
is for people 2 years and over.  Detailed recommendations for the number of servings from each of the four food groups are based on age and gender.

Fact Sheets:

Note: Some of these Fact Sheets will be revised to better reflect the information in the new Canada’s Food Guide. The Health Connection information on the Fact Sheets is still correct, but the Health Unit is now the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit.

Posters:

• Add it Up! 5-10 A Day For Better Health
  This is a colourful poster showing a couple and a child running across a field. There are depictions of serving sizes of fruit and vegetables. The message is to promote fruit and vegetable consumption as a part of a healthy diet to help reduce your risk of cancer .heart disease and stroke.

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Tobacco Resources

One Step At A Time Program Booklet - For Smokers Who Don't Want to Quit
A booklet to help a smoker examine their smoking habit, their ideas and attitudes about quitting and some facts about health concerns for women, men and children. And some good health news on quitting no matter how long someone has smoked. Useful for people in the precontemplation through maintenance stages of quitting smoking.

One Step At A Time Program Booklet - For Smokers Who Don't Want to Quit
A booklet to help a smoker examine their smoking habit, their ideas and attitudes about quitting and some facts about health concerns for women, men and children. And some good health news on quitting no matter how long someone has smoked. Useful for people in the precontemplation through maintenance stages of quitting smoking.

Be smoke-free Protect your family's health
Highlights tobacco and cancer facts and statistics. Outlines some of the toxic chemicals in cigarettes and the risks of second-hand smoke. Stresses that it is never too late to quit and experience health benefits! Promotes the Smokers' Helpline. For people in the precontemplation and contemplation stages of quitting smoking.

Thinking About Quiting
Smokers' Helpline pamphlet provides info about how to obtain one-to-one confidential counselling, support and advice by providing phone number and hours of Smoker’s Helpline. For people in the contemplation through maintenance stages of quitting smoking.

Nutrition Tips for Quiting Smoking fact sheet
Tips to help ex-smokers deal with cravings. For people in the preparation, action and maintenance stages of quitting smoking.

Eating Well with Canada’s Food Guide
is for people 2 years and over.  Detailed recommendations for the number of servings from each of the four food groups are based on age and gender.

Canada’s Physical Activity Guide to Healthy Active Living
Includes benefits of regular physical activity, explains how much and the kind of activity you need to stay healthy and provides tips for getting started. Encouraging activity a home, at school, at work, at play and on the way! Useful for people in the precontemplation through maintenance stages of quitting smoking.

Smoke-free Homes pamphlet
Provides info about poisonous chemicals found in second-hand smoke; offers 2 decals (welcome to our smoke-free home & car); health effects of second-hand smoke; tips to make your home smoke-free. Useful for people in the precontemplation through maintenance stages of quitting smoking.

Posters:

Smokers’ Helpline
Smokers’ Helpline poster is a picture of a person in a smoke-filled phone booth calling Smokers’s Helpline. Helpline phone number is on poster. Poster measures 14” x 9 3/8”.