Step up your food game without crossing the line! Influence with Integrity is your fast-track guide to coaching nutrition habits the right way — fully in your lane, fully trusted. Discover how to leverage Health Canada’s top tools, decode labels and food products, and empower your clients to make smart choices — all while staying true to your professional integrity and scope.
As fitness professionals, your clients trust you for guidance — but when it comes to food and nutrition, knowing where your coaching lane ends is just as important as the advice you give.
In this workshop, you’ll learn how to use Health Canada’s trusted food and nutrition tools — including the latest version of Canada’s Food Guide, practical label-reading tips, meal planning supports, and budget-friendly recipe resources — to help clients build lifelong healthy habits without straying outside your professional scope.
We’ll also break down how to spot the difference between everyday foods, natural health products, and regulated supplements, using Health Canada’s essential guide How to Tell the Different Types of Foods and Health Products Apart.
This is critical for protecting your practice, avoiding unintended liability, and empowering clients to make informed choices safely.
Learning Objectives:
- Influence vs. Integrity & defining the scope of practice for nutrition advice under BCRPA guidelines
- Identify valid, evidence-based resources to use legally
- Learn how to use and cite academic resources correctly to add credibility — without prescribing nutrition
- Guide clients to credible tools learning food vs. health products
- Review professional referral process
Facilitated by Kim Bond
Kim Bond is a seasoned fitness educator, presenter, and founder of True North West Academy. With over 25 years in the industry, she specializes in training future fitness leaders and delivering engaging, evidence-based workshops. Known for her dynamic teaching style and commitment to active aging, Kim inspires movement, leadership, and change across all populations. She brings her passion for education and innovation to the stage, helping instructors elevate their practice and empower their communities.
BCRPA Registered Fitness Leaders are eligible to receive 0.5 CECs upon completion of this course.
The video for this course is 31 minutes in length.