#Food-guide

Here’s Canada’s new food guide: Doesn’t this look a lot like the USDA’s MyPlate? Actually, the Canadian guide is better.  Even though it retains the annoying “Protein” section (we don’t eat protein; we eat foods containing protein and lots of other nutrients), it drops the dairy requirement. 

Canada’s food guide has been around since 2007.   Bill Jeffery, the executive director of the Canadian Centre for Health Science and Law (which publishes the Food for Life Report) has produced an annotated version of the food guide with proposals for fixing its major problems. Critics viewed

Belgium has produced a new food guide “pyramid,” upside down.  Its advice: Drink water Eat more fruits, vegetables, and grains Eat less dairy and meat, particularly those high in fat Eat a lot less junk food, sugary drinks, and alcohol Nothing new here, really, except for making the advice so

I’ve just heard about the new Netherlands food guide.  It emphasizes sustainability.  According to an article in National Geographic’s The Plate, The Netherlands Nutrition Centre says  it is recommending people eat just two servings of meat a week, setting an explicit limit on meat consumption for