Manitoba Tomorrow Project

📩Are you a Manitoba Tomorrow Project participant? Keeping your contact information current helps us stay connected throughout life’s changes (new job, phone number or address?) and it’s very easy, you can update your contact information anytime on our website www.manitobatomorrowproject.ca, and follow these steps: Click the “Sign Up Here” button and under “Reason for Contact”, select “Updating Contact Information”.

📞Staying connected with our participants is key to the success of the Manitoba Tomorrow Project, and ensures that you never miss an important update.

Manitoba Tomorrow Project Due to continued interest in the Manitoba Tomorrow Project we have extended our enrollment deadline. If you are interested in participating, please sign up or contact our team soon so you do not miss out!

Stool (the medical term for ‘poop’) is a valuable source of health information. Even before analyzing a stool sample, researchers can get an early glimpse into your digestive health. How? By using a Bristol Stool Chart! 💩

The Bristol Stool Chart is a simple, visual tool with seven categories for classifying human stool at the time of sample collection. Stool shape and type, as captured by the Bristol Stool Chart, are influenced by diet, fluid intake, medications, and lifestyle and can provide insight into how well the body is absorbing nutrients from food.

As part of the national HEALthy Eating and Supportive Environments (HEAL) diet and physical activity study, Manitoba Tomorrow Project (MTP) participants may be invited to complete an at-home stool collection kit, including a Bristol Stool Chart.

HEAL invitations have now been sent to all MTP participants! If you think you missed the email, please contact us at [email protected] or 1-855-588-0658.

🚭This Sunday, May 31, is World No To***co Day.

🫁Did you know that the link between smoking and lung cancer was established through a large-scale long-term study similar to the Manitoba Tomorrow Project?

The British Doctors Study led by Sir Richard Doll and Sir Austin Bradford Hill began in 1951. Doll and Hill sent a questionnaire to all registered British doctors, more than 40,000 of whom replied providing demographic information and outlining their smoking habits. Throughout 50 years of follow-up, Doll and Hill observed strong evidence of a direct link between smoking and mortality from lung cancer.

Similarly, the Manitoba Tomorrow Project is a longitudinal study, meaning the same participants will be followed over many years. By collecting data and biological samples (e.g., blood, urine, stool) from participants over time, longitudinal studies capture changes that occur following exposure to various risk factors (e.g., smoking, diet, physical activity, work-related hazards). Cancer and chronic diseases take a long time to develop, so longitudinal studies provide researchers with the ability to better understand how things that occurred years before a diagnosis contributed to the development of a disease. These discoveries could fuel improvements in disease prevention, detection, and treatment.

We believe the Manitoba Tomorrow Project has the potential to support groundbreaking health research for decades to come. Thank you for making this possible!

🩺This Sunday, May 17th is World Hypertension Day.

Hypertension is commonly referred to as high blood pressure, and it can pose serious health risks.

📋The Manitoba Tomorrow Project collects information about participants’ personal and family history of hypertension and if you’ve attended an in-person study appointment, you’ve likely had your blood pressure measured by a member of the MTP team. This information can provide context for a variety of health conditions and allows researchers to continue looking into the factors influencing blood pressure. In the future, this work will hopefully inform how to reduce the risk factors for hypertension, promoting better health for Manitobans.

For information about maintaining a healthy blood pressure, visit:

Hypertension Canada | For Healthcare Professionals Hypertension Canada is the only Canadian organization dedicated solely to the prevention and control of hypertension (high blood pressure) and its complications.

We just hit 10,000 HEAL study participants, and you helped make that happen! 🎉

Every survey you've filled out about what you ate and how you moved is a piece of a much bigger puzzle. Researchers can use this data to study cancer, heart disease, mental health, and more.

Your corner of Canada matters to this research. Thank you for showing up 👏 https://canpath.ca/2026/05/heal-study-10000-participant-milestone/

Have you heard about ultra-processed foods in the news lately?

Ultra-processed foods have been linked to increased risk of Type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and obesity, they may also have mental health effects. But what are ultra-processed foods, exactly?

🍫Ultra-processed foods are made through extensive factory processing and contain ingredients you likely wouldn’t use in your own kitchen – things like preservatives, emulsifiers, gels, flavour enhancers, or artificial colours.

Many Canadians regularly consume ultra-processed foods. How might that be affecting our health?

🔎That’s where the Canada-wide Healthy Eating and Supportive Environments (HEAL) study comes in! By providing detailed 24-hour dietary intake information, HEAL participants in Manitoba and across the country are ensuring that researchers have the data they need to better understand how the food we eat affects our health over time.