I hope that plate at the top of the front page isn't a suggested meal size! Has anyone got some background on this, is it part of a larger policy? Is it going to be added to, or is this it now?
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Canada's New Food Guide
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#22It's interesting how we can all check out Canada's food guide, but we cannot do the same with e.g. the Dutch food guide, or the Italian one, or the Russian one, unless you speak those languages.
In any case, this one appears pretty similar to the Dutch one, so I guess that that's a good sign. The Dutch one recommends specific portions (250g of vegetables for an adult, for example), but I think in similar ratios as shown on that example plate, and similar products.
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#23Canada.ca is a recipe website now and it's what HN always wanted: a recipe with no weird preface personal stories about grandmother's or something drinking tea.
I'm a fan. Other examples:
https://www.sbs.com.au/food/recipes
https://www.bbc.com/food/recipes
With a light sprinkling of meat propaganda: https://www.trueaussiebeefandlamb.com/recipes/
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh, it’s still catering to some industries, they’re just far less blatant about it than in America.
In the Pork and apple skillet dinner[1], they recommend using canola oil, a recommendation one doesn't see all that often. With canola oil having been engineered in Canada, is it an oil of choice for Canadians? [1] https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/canada-food-...
I'm surprised you don't see that recommendation often. It's a very cheap, versatile cooking oil. I wouldn't say it's anyone's favourite, but it's effectively the default?
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I like it, too. Pretty much what I've been following for the last 1-2 years. Would like more clarification on the saturated fats front, though (compare coconut oil, butter, palm oil, trans fats).
Avoid oils in general. They're mostly devoid of nutrition (i.e. no fiber, lacking vitamins and minerals compared to the food source) and only contain fat https://youtu.be/LbtwwZP4Yfs
There is no reason to avoid fat.
Here is one instance of an easily accessible peer-reviewed-science-based list of the current knowledge on dietary fat: https://www.foundmyfitness.com/news/t/fat
It does not show that oils or fat are something to blanket avoid.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
I like it, too. Pretty much what I've been following for the last 1-2 years. Would like more clarification on the saturated fats front, though (compare coconut oil, butter, palm oil, trans fats).
Avoid oils in general. They're mostly devoid of nutrition (i.e. no fiber, lacking vitamins and minerals compared to the food source) and only contain fat https://youtu.be/LbtwwZP4Yfs
Wrong. Quality fats are not only essential but also good for you for example: olive oils, Avocado oils.
Avoid (cheap) vegetable oils such as sunflower and rapeseed oils and the derived products with hydrogenated oils, such as margarines.
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#27I hope that plate at the top of the front page isn't a suggested meal size! Has anyone got some background on this, is it part of a larger policy? Is it going to be added to, or is this it now?
Why? Too much? Too little?
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#28It's interesting how we can all check out Canada's food guide, but we cannot do the same with e.g. the Dutch food guide, or the Italian one, or the Russian one, unless you speak those languages. In any case, this one appears pretty similar to the Dutch one, so I guess that that's a good sign. The Dutch one recommends specific portions (250g of vegetables for an adult, for example), but I think in similar ratios as sh…
> It's interesting how we can all check out Canada's food guide, but we cannot do the same with e.g. the Dutch food guide, or the Italian one, or the Russian one, unless you speak those languages.
It's the same case for Canada's food guide? They're not making it available in other languages except English and French.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Avoid oils in general. They're mostly devoid of nutrition (i.e. no fiber, lacking vitamins and minerals compared to the food source) and only contain fat https://youtu.be/LbtwwZP4Yfs
Wrong. Quality fats are not only essential but also good for you for example: olive oils, Avocado oils. Avoid (cheap) vegetable oils such as sunflower and rapeseed oils and the derived products with hydrogenated oils, such as margarines.
He's saying to prefer the whole food (the "source") over the raw oil. Doesn't seem that wrong.
Also, this health guide lists sunflower and "cheap" canola as examples of good unsaturated fats.
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#30It's interesting how we can all check out Canada's food guide, but we cannot do the same with e.g. the Dutch food guide, or the Italian one, or the Russian one, unless you speak those languages. In any case, this one appears pretty similar to the Dutch one, so I guess that that's a good sign. The Dutch one recommends specific portions (250g of vegetables for an adult, for example), but I think in similar ratios as sh…
Literally typing "dutch food guide" into DuckDuckGo got me to this summary in English: http://www.fao.org/nutrition/education/food-based-dietary-gu...
Then following some broken links to https://www.voedingscentrum.nl, here is The Netherlands Nutrition Centre's English home page: https://www.voedingscentrum.nl/nl/service/english.aspx where following some more broken links you get to their "Wheel of Five", "the practical information tool used by the Netherlands Nutrition Centre to give examples of healthy dietary patterns": https://www.voedingscentrum.nl/Assets/Uploads/voedingscentru...
(I don't speak Dutch, and I feel silly pointing out that national dietary guidelines make most sense in national languages, and that English happens to be a national language of Canada.)