Healthy Families BC

Make Room For Play
Let’s decrease screen time and increase playtime!
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Pregnancy & Parenting
Find information on pregnancy, your child's development, and healthy lifestyles for the whole family.
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Activity & Lifestyle
Helping British Columbians plan the way to a healthier lifestyle. No matter your age or fitness level, we've got tips to get you moving!
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Food & Nutrition
Healthy eating is vital to healthy living from the prenatal and early childhood years, to aging. Help you and your family stay healthy and feel your best.
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Brain Boosting Snack Ideas for Work

It’s midafternoon at work. Feeling drained? Skip the coffee and cookie combo and try one of these brain boosting snack ideas instead.

Activate Your Brain with Physical Activity

Don’t run away from studying, lab reports and term papers; take a few steps to make all that learning easier. Here’s how being active can help you focus on your studies.

How to Get Relief From Constipation Naturally

Constipation is an uncomfortable topic, but it is common. Luckily it can be avoided with simple healthy eating practices. Here are recommendations on how to get the relief and prevention you deserve.

The period between childhood and young adulthood is a period of rapid change - physical, emotional, cognitive and social. During this time, children’s bodies change in different ways at different times. No two teenage bodies are the same.

Preschooler Development: 4-5 years

Preschoolers come in all shapes and sizes, but preschooler development at 4-5 years typically has a few things in common. Here’s what your preschooler might be doing.

Preschooler Development: 3-4 years

Preschoolers come in all shapes and sizes, but preschooler development at 3-4 years typically has a few things in common. Here’s what your preschooler might be doing.

Food & Nutrition

Sodium 101

High sodium foods are not difficult to find. Packaged foods, ready-to-eat foods, fast foods and restaurant meals often have high sodium levels, even if they don't seem to taste salty.

What are Healthy Drinks?

Here are some healthy tips on how to use the nutrition label to learn more about your drinks, and what kind of sugar might be added.

Plan Low Sodium Meals

Learn how to plan and prepare low sodium meals your family will love. These easy ideas will help to reduce your overall salt intake. Planning low sodium meals are easier than you think.

Activity & Lifestyle

How to Stop Feeling Tired All the Time

Feeling fatigued is the same as feeling as though you are tired all the time. Why might you be feeling so tired? There could be a number of factors, but there are also many ways to boost your energy too!

Warming Up and Cooling Down

Your body is better prepared for a workout after a warm-up. We provide some ways you can rev up to maximize your exercise time.

Why is Using Tobacco So Addictive?

If you've ever smoked and tired to quit, you know it’s a challenge. Smoking and your health aside, why is the urge to continue to smoke so strong? There are a number of reasons, the main one being - Brain Chemistry.

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