Health Tools
Try our collection of calculators and self-assessment tools to measure your health and wellness. These toools are a quick and easy way to assess your health. Simply enter a few values and hit calculate for instant results.
- Alcohol use assessment: See what your level of alcohol dependence is.
- Allergy Proofing: One of the most important parts of allergy management is to avoid allergens, the substances that cause the allergic reaction. This includes reducing and minimizing the number of potential allergens in your home. Find out what you can do.
- Allergy Triggers: One of the most important parts of allergy management is to avoid allergens, the substances that cause the allergic reaction. Find out what you can do to reduce your exposure to the following allergens.
- Basal Metabolic Rate Calculator: We all need a certain amount of energy just to sus-tain basic body functions. Determine your basic energy needs and see how this can help you with weight loss, gain or maintenance.
- Body Mass Index Calculator : Are you at a healthy weight? Calculate your Body Mass Index (BMI) and find out.
- Breast Cancer Self-Exam: It is vital that all women from teens to seniors be aware of breast health, not just those who have a family history of the disease. 70% of women diagnosed with breast cancer have no known risk factors.
- Calories Burned/Day: Enter your weight, type and duration of activity to calculate the amount of calories you'll burn in a day.
- Cost of Smoking Calculator: Calculate the amount of money spent on smoking over a lifetime, and compare the money spent on smoking to the amount of money earned if it was invested.
- Healthy Buddy : Need information to help deal with your health issues? Use this in-teractive tool to focus on related condition information that may help address your concerns.
- Heart Disease Risk Calculator: Many factors, such as age, gender and lifestyle can af-fect your risk of heart disease. Use our interactive health calculator to help deter-mine your risk of heart disease over the next 10 years.
- Ideal Weight Range Calculator: Calculate your ideal body weight based on your height
- Keep Your Kids Healthy: One Canadian child in every four is overweight, and that number is increasing in fact, the rate of obesity in Canadian children has more than doubled in the past two decades. And with this weight gain come health problems such as diabetes and heart disease. We've put together some tips to help you.
- Life Expectancy Calculator: How long will you live? Try the life expectancy calcula-tor for an estimate. You'll also see what you can do to help ensure you live a long and healthy life.
- Nutrition and Food Center: This nutrition guide provides information on cooking, nutritional values of food, preventive nutrition, cooking, weight management, nutritional supplements and more. You will be prompted to accept a security notice indicating that you will be opening a new window outside of this secure website, please accept to proceed.
- Stress Quiz: Stress is a fact of life. It can come from any life change or unexpected event, even a happy one such as a promotion. Do our quiz to find the best way for you to handle stress.
- Stroke Risk Assessment Quiz: In Canada, there are about 55,000 strokes a year. Do you know your risk level for having a stroke? Find out with this quiz.
- Target cholesterol levels and heart disease risk calculator
- Cold or Flu Calculator: The flu is a respiratory (i.e., nose, throat and lung) infection that can be caused by a variety of influenza viruses. Many people use the word "flu" when they actually have a cold. Although the common cold is also caused by viruses, the flu and common cold differ in several ways. Can you tell the difference? Test your knowledge!
- Baby Due Date Calculator: It's important to know when your baby is due, and not just so you can plan your work leave (and baby shower) in advance. If a pregnancy goes past the due date, medical intervention such as induced labour or a cesarean section may be necessary. Find out when your baby is due!
Nutrition Guide : This nutrition guide explains various food groups.
Stress Quiz : Stress is a fact of life. It can come from any life change or unexpected event, even a happy one such as a promotion. Do our quiz to find the best way for you to handle stress.
Stroke Risk Assessment Quiz : In Canada, there are about 55,000 strokes a year. Do you know your risk level for having a stroke? Find out with this quiz.
Target cholesterol levels and heart disease risk calculator
Cold or Flu Calculator : The flu is a respiratory (i.e., nose, throat and lung) infection that can be caused by a variety of influenza viruses. Many people use the word "flu" when they actually have a cold. Although the common cold is also caused by viruses, the flu and common cold differ in several ways. Can you tell the difference? Test your knowledge!
Baby Due Date Calculator : It's important to know when your baby is due, and not just so you can plan your work leave (and baby shower) in advance. If a pregnancy goes past the due date, medical intervention such as induced labour or a cesarean section may be necessary. Find out when your baby is due!
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