Toronto

Healthy City

Toronto, where I was born, is the perfect city to walk in, with enough distractions to make you forget you’re exercising. Case in point: The waterfront, undergoing a massive revitalization, has the Toronto Music Garden, a rambling promenade along Lake Ontario and the new H_TO Park.

Healthy Hotel

The Park Hyatt Toronto is an old favourite of mine. The amazing Stillwater Spa includes an aqua therapy room. Tech addicts can get a 30-minute Hi-Tech Massage focusing on PDA-stressed hands.
4 Avenue Rd., 416-925-1234, parktoronto.hyatt.com 

The Run

Toronto’s social elite meet at the Yorkville Club, which has a location near the Park Hyatt and the Four Seasons hotels. To work off that cocktail, you can jog along the very quiet Belt Line Linear Park, a reclaimed railroad track without so much as a honk of a car or a glimpse of a skyscraper.
55 Avenue Rd., 416-961-8400, theyorkvilleclub.com


Healthy Meals

Breakfast
United Bakers Dairy Restaurant in North York is an institution. It serves up delicious, healthy (and kosher-style) options, like oatmeal and an egg-white Spanish omelette.
506 Lawrence Ave. W., Lawrence Plaza, 416-789-0519

Lunch
Sushi Time Japanese Restaurant is my go-to spot for fast sushi. Don’t leave without trying the salmon pizza and the dragon b roll.
325 Queen St. W., 416-977-2222

Dinner
Married chefs Bob Bermann and Barbara Gordon run Boba, in a century-old brick house in Yorkville. The grilled Ontario ostrich and herbed gnocchi entrée is my favourite and the wine list is also great.
90 Avenue Rd., 416-961-2622, boba.ca

Harley Pasternak, MSc, is the fitness trainer and nutrition guru to the stars. Pasternak is also the bestselling author of two books – The 5-Factor Diet and 5-Factor Fitness – and he appears regularly on Today. To learn more about him, visit 5factordiet.com.

PHOTOS: IMAGE ONTARIO (TORONTO); STILLWATER SPA; YORKVILLE CLUB; BARBARA GORDON (BOBA)