FOOD GUIDE

5 CANADA’s Food Guide biased?

~ ° There have been several reports in the media recently, (most notably the Ot- lawa .Citizen and the Globe and Mail) suggesting that food industries somehow controlled the new Canada’s Food Guide for Healthy. Eating... -

Ag a result, some people are asking: if- they can trust the guide, me

~The Answer?

’ An emphatic ‘“Yes!”’

The new Food Guide was developed in consultation with over 200 stakeholders. They

included ‘consumers, health professionals - (like Nutritionists), universities,

yolunieer organizations (like the Heart and Stroke Founda- tion and the Canadian Cancer Society), as well as the food industry. >

: Under Freedom Of Informa-

tion legislation, people can re- quest government documents. + In the case of the food guide, they asked Health and Welfare ments pertaining to the sug- gestions made by the food in- dustry...

_ They, then looked at changes io the! “guide, and said ‘‘Aha! they made tliese changes be- cause the food industry asked them to,”’

Since people questioning the guide. didn’t ask to’ see the suggestions, from other groups, they’ may have been unaware that..the same recommenda- tions _were being made by many: others for scientific rea- sons....For..example: if the protein and iron content of 50 to--100' grams of meat is similar tothe amount in 1 to 2 eggs, why’ would we list the serving § size of eggs as only 1?

This, was. pointed. out by many: ‘people, not just the Egg Marketing Board.

‘ Another | criticism of the

irite-is: “that ‘there is too.much~ étnphasis: “On ‘the meat ‘and —

dairy'food groups, due to the undue” influence of marketing boards. If: that were truc, then there “apparently was a lot MORE influence from the pro- duce and grain producers of Canada; There are twice as many tecommended servings Of these. plant foods as there are of the animal foods in the Guide (as there should be). { What that:tells me is. that none..of: the. boards. had any more (or any Jess) impact than the-scientific people did. Alleziof.< the stakeholders worked together to produce a piactical and useful document. “Canada's Food Guide was revised to help people trans- late® ‘the Nutrition Recom- mendations for Canadians (a fairly dry official document, wiitten in: bureaucrat-ese) into everyday. food choices, To do

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this, it now shows a ‘‘total diet’’ approach, rather than the ‘“yasic nutrients’’ approach of the previous guides,

(The earlier food guides were mostly concerned with making sure that people ate enough vitamins and minerals.)

So now the Food Guide helps us choose a higher car- bohydrate, lower fat way of eating.

The new Guide does an ex- cellent job of helping us to

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Nutrition Notes by Gerry Kasten

choose diets that will keep us.

healthier.

The Rainbow shows us we should be- emphasizing the grains and fruits and veggies in our diets, while choosing lower fat dairy products and leaner meats.

The Servings © guidelines show us that we need at least 5 grain products, and 5 vegeta- bles and fruits, while we only need 2 - 4 dairy servings (depending on our age), and 2 servings of meat or alternates

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per day. Of course, it’s still just a single sheet of paper, so it may

leave you’ with additional questions. a Community. nutritionists

from British Columbia (like

me!) and all the other pro- vinces helped to clevelop Can- ada’s Food Guide for Healthy Rating,

Our: purpose y was to provide the kind of ‘tool that you, the people we work with, wanted. We are finding that people who use the Food Guide are very enthusiastic about it.

If you have any other ques- tions about the guide, or you’d like a copy of it, just contact me through your local Skeena Health Unit,

Gerry Kasten is a nutritionist at the Skeena Health Unit,

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