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Food Security: Overview

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Access to healthy food is a key factor in enabling people to eat a healthy diet. Food security is necessary for optimal growth and development, for the continuation of good health and for the prevention of chronic diseases.

Food security is widely described as the condition in which all people at all times can acquire safe, nutritionally adequate, and personally acceptable foods in a manner that maintains human dignity.

Food insecurity occurs when the ability to acquire food is compromised for various reasons: food may be unaffordable; food choices may be unacceptable; food distribution systems may be inadequate; income maybe insufficient; or transportation may be inaccessible. Where food insecurity and inadequate dietary intake occur, detrimental effects on health and wellbeing are likely to be present at the individual, family and community level.

Nutrition and Active Living works to address the nutritional concerns which arise as a result of food insecurity in the region through:

increasing awareness of the issues related to food security and food insecurity.
increasing awareness and support of community based response programs - programs and services which support people who do not have sufficient incomes to purchase nutritious food.
participation in surveys and reports which estimate the cost of healthy eating in Calgary and Alberta.
development, implementation and on-going support of initiatives that address food insecurity at a local, provincial and national level.

For more information, contact Nutrition and Active Living at (403) 943-6753 and ask for the Nutrition Specialist responsible for Food Security.

More information on food security and the Collective Kitchen Program in operation within the Calgary Health Region




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