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New approach for Canada’s Food Guide
MONTREAL—Healthy eating is more than the foods you eat—is the message Canada’s Food Guide wants to get across. On January 22, 2019, Canada debuted its new Food Guide. The Food Guide that many of us grew up with focused on…
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Front-of-packaging nutrition labelling
Health Canada is turning up the heat on healthy eating. In October the minister of Health invited comments on its Healthy Eating Strategy. This includes, among other things, revising Canada’s Food Guide, reducing the amount of sodium, removing industrially produced…
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The heat on Canada’s food guide
Canada’s senators, not the hockey team, have recently come out of the closet with their view of Canada’s Food Guide. The Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology looked at the increasing incidence of obesity in Canada. The…
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What’s Your Number (of fruit & veg)?
The food industry grapples with how to get Canadians to put more fruit and vegetables on their plates
