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Article: Critics chew out writers of new food guide
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- Winnipeg Free Press
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- February 6, 2007
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By Sharon Kirkey
OTTAWA -- Canada has a new food guide for the first time in nearly 15 years, and for the first time it includes an explicit call to include healthy fats in the diet.
But the food bible ignores just how many extra calories people would consume by eating a recommended two to three tablespoons of unsaturated fat each day, critics say.
The new food guide, four years and $1.5 million in the making, is the first in the guide's 65-year history to provide recommendations on the amount and types of food according to age and gender.
It recommends limiting foods with artery-plugging trans fats and food and beverages high in calories, saturated fats, sugar and sodium -- cakes, ...