March is Nutrition Month, and the dieticians in the Northern Health Region encourage us to focus on healthy eating habits to improve our overall health.

However, some people still consider their weight as the key factor for measuring their health.

According to Joanna Ledoux (Leh-do), a community dietician for the NHR, there are many factors in our environment that we can’t control that impact our weight and our health.

She shares what some of them are.

“Labour saving devices is one of them. Another example of that is how portion sizes have increased over the years. Another example of that is if you go to the grocery stores, look at the variety of the food that we have now compared to how much we used to have.”

In April, Ledoux will host a free program called Creating Change that will help participants identify their own problematic eating behaviours and develop strategies to overcome them.

To register, go to the Northern Regional Health Authority facebook page.

For the full interview with Ledoux, catch Thompson Today at 12:40 and 5:10 this afternoon.