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Article: Mixed reviews for Canada's new food guide
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- Canadian Medical Association. Journal
- Article date:
- March 13, 2007
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Federal health minister Tony Clement believes it's state-of-the-art and some praise the newly updated Canada Food Guide as sound nutritional advice, but critics aren't convinced that recent revisions to the 65-year-old document will do enough to minimize the risk of chronic disease and have failed Canadians by neglecting to include guidelines for daily caloric intake.
Health Canada lauded the guide's addition of clearer information about serving sizes that are based on age (including preschoolers) and sex, while touting the value of a "create your own guide" Web tool that allows Canadians to integrate personal food preferences into the guide (www.hc-sc.gc.ca/). The 6-page guide, last ...