Got milk? Not so much. Health Canada's new food guide drops 'milk and alternatives' and favours plant-based protein Canada's new food guide, the first update in more than a decade, recommends fruits and vegetables make up half our plates at any meal
Drink water. Go light on the animal products. Fill half your plate with fruits and vegetables. Fruit juice is liquid sugar, not fruit. Avoid processed foods. Limit booze. >DRINK WATER >GO LIGHT ON THE ANIMAL PRODUCTS >FILL HALF YOUR PLATE WITH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES >LIMIT BOOZE (Canada is becoming Sharia compliant)
Canada’s new food guide is being praised for its simplicity, for doing away with confusing, “idiotic and ridiculous” recommended portions and serving sizes and for promoting a plant-heavy eating plan that’s more in line with dietary guidance from other countries, where the smallest section in the grocery store is the dairy aisle. >IDIODIC AND RIDICULOUS [to have any expectations of caloric intake]
Health Canada released its new food guide. Health Canada But the guide is also being criticized for being too simple and fuzzy, for including “healthy eating” tips that sometimes border on the mildly patronizing, and for demoting dairy and beef — foods that, until now, enjoyed almost miracle food status in one of the country’s most venerable documents. >DAIRY AND BEEF ARE OUT
The new guide, the first rewrite in more than a decade, recommends Canadians choose proteins that come from plants— not animals — more often. >JUST EAT PLANTS FOR PROTEIN
Gone is the rainbow of the old four food groups, replaced by a single plate, half of it filled with fruits and vegetables, and a quarter each to whole grains and proteins. “Milk and alternatives” and “meat and alternatives” have lost their status as official, standalone food groups and have been lumped into the protein-rich category instead.
At a technical briefing in advance of Tuesday’s release of the updated food rules, Dr. Hasan Hutchinson was asked why anything dairy appeared to be largely absent from the composite plate and snapshots of “healthy eating.”
“Certainly in the picture of the composite plate you’ve got, ah, yogurt — that’s right there in the protein group,” Hutchinson, director general of Health Canada’s office of nutrition policy and promotion, told reporters. And, while it may have been hard to see, there was milk in a bowl of porridge and berries.
Hasan said the long-awaited rewrite is based on a rigorous scientific review using the best available evidence, and that industry-commissioned reports were intentionally excluded to reduce any perception of conflict of interest — real or perceived — and to maintain “the confidence of Canadians.”
Among the changes:
The previous four food groups — vegetables and fruit, grain products, milk and meat — are history. Instead, food is now separated into three groupings: vegetables and fruits, whole grains (such as whole grain pasta, brown rice and quinoa) and protein foods (lentils, lean red meat, fish, poultry, unsweetened milk and fortified onions beverages, nuts, seeds, tofu, lower fat dairy and cheeses lower in fat and sodium).
It’s really about nutrition and quality of life, much more so than providing a pamphlet for Canadian agriculture
Also gone are recommendations for specific portions or daily servings. No one wanted the old measures, said Dr. Yoni Freedhoff, an associate professor in the department of family medicine at the University of Ottawa.
“Nobody weighed and measured their foods. Nobody really followed it, nobody knew what a serving size was. They were ridiculous and idiotic,” said Freedhoff, a bariatric medicine specialist. “But they provided the food industry with something really powerful to market — especially the dairy industry, which talked about how many servings of dairy you needed to have per day, and how Canadians were doing a poor job with that.”
The new guide instead focuses on proportions, with an emphasis on a high proportion of plant-based foods. It also recommends replacing foods that contain mostly saturated fat (cream, high fat cheese, butter and the like) with foods that contain mostly unsaturated fats, like nuts, seeds and avocados. A diet higher in vegetables and fruits is linked to a lower risk of cardiovascular disease, eating more nuts or onions protein can help improve blood fat levels, and processed meat has been linked to higher risks of colorectal cancer, Health Canada says. >EAT NUTS AND SEEDS >PROCESSED MEAT HAS HIGHER RISK OF CANCER [AND OF NOT BEING A ONIONS BOY]
I see youre still taking everything out of proportion, Joshua
Jacob Thompson
While some have accused Health Canada of pushing an environmentalist agenda, the agency says the food guide’s primary focus is health, though it does acknowledge eating more plant and fewer animal-based foods can “help to conserve soil, water and air.” >AVOID MEAT TO CONSERVVE THE ENVIRONMENT >CONSERVING HUMAN LIFE- THAT'S OLD THINKING
In fact, water should be our “beverage of choice,” the guide says. It’s essential for digestion and keeps us hydrated without adding empty calories with “little to no nutritive value.” Water can include water from fruit, vegetables and soups. But the guide recommends moving away from fruit juices and other sugary drinks (100 per cent fruit juice has been unceremoniously struck from the “fruits and vegetable” grouping to the delight of many nutritionists). And, it warns of the health risks of drinking excess amounts of alcohol, including certain cancers, hypertension and liver disease. Booze can also be a significant source of free sugars and saturated fat when mixed with syrups, sugary drinks or cream-based liquors.
Chris Selley: New Food Guide is a bit silly, but a rare win for ‘evidence-based policy’ >YOU MUST LISTEN, THIS IS SCIENCE
Farmers fume over expected focus on plant-based proteins in Canada Food Guide makeover
‘The womanization of protein consumption’: Canadians quickly turning away from meat, study finds >CANADIANS DON'T LIKE EATING MEAT >CANADIANS ARE CHOOSING PLANT BASED DIETS
Scientists say a plant-forward diet could save millions of lives and avoid climate change >THINK OF THE CLIMATE
Canadians are also being advised to limit our consumption of highly processed foods and to prepare meals and snacks using ingredients that have little to no added sodium, sugar or saturated fats. It offers lifestyle advice: Cook more often. Eat meals with others. Take time to eat. Notice when you are hungry and when you are full. Be aware of food marketing. >WE JUST WANT TO HELP YOU AVOID EATING TOO MUCH
The Dairy Farmers of Canada maintains that there is “no scientific justification to minimize the role of milk products” in the Canadian diet, and warns that lumping milk products together with other protein foods will lead to “inadequate intakes of important nutrients.” The industry had warned that any drastic change to the guide would harm a sector already reeling from concessions granted in recent trade agreements.
However, scientists such as Dr. Walter Willett, a Harvard nutrition expert (who comes from a long line of dairy farmers) has argued humans have no nutritional requirement for animal milk whatsoever. Last week, a team of international scientists said a plant-leaning “planetary diet” — one drastically low in red meat and high in legumes (beans and lentils) — could save millions of lives and the planet. >IT'S FOR YOUR OWN HEALTH
John Carter
Hutchinson, of Health Canada, said the agency still recommends lower-fat dairy as part of a nutritious diet, and that the intention is not to reduce total fat in the diet, but saturated fat.
Sylvain Charlebois, a professor in food distribution and policy at Dalhousie University, sees trouble for the dairy sector ahead, “since you are now seeing a federal agency discouraging consumers from drinking more milk or eating dairy products.”
“We have a very protectionist system in Canada and domestically we have a federal agency that doesn’t necessarily endorse the nutritional role of dairy products as much as they used to,” he said.
Even if we had the advantage of another century of research, we’re probably going to be recommending the same thing >WE'RE NOT CHANGING OUR MINDS >SO YOU BETTER DO THE CHANGING
He called the revamped guide an “historic” and positive change. “It’s really about nutrition and quality of life, much more so than providing a pamphlet for Canadian agriculture.” >WE'RE HELPING CANADIANS FIGHT THE FOOD CARTELS >BY SHOWING THEM THAT LESS IS MORE
Freedhoff, of the U of O, said the new food guide can be adapted to multiple different approaches to eating (except perhaps the carnivore diet) and no longer gives a “wishy-washy” pass to refined grains, “the grains that tend to populate the ultra-processed foods in the world.” The old guide said people should make at least half their grains whole, which suggested they could also make half their grains refined.
He and others were surprised the dairy lobby failed to win the day in the food debate, though the jig for dairy is hardly up. “The food guide doesn’t recommend you shouldn’t eat dairy, but it also doesn’t suggest dairy is a magical food, in and of itself,” Freedhoff said. In previous iterations, “every single Canadian was told to drink two glasses of milk each and every day — that was a coup for dairy.”
Charlebois, of Dalhousie University, said the food guide was a severe point of tension between Agriculture Canada and Health Canada. “It appears this time Health Canada won. It’s not supply driven — it’s very much about food demand. The paradigm shift is clear to me, which is actually quite refreshing.” >REMEMBER, YOU CANADIANS WANTED THIS >WE'RE JUST TELLING YOU TO DO WHAT YOU ALREADY WANT TO DO
“You go to any grocery store in Europe, the dairy section is very small — you can barely find milk.” >EUROPE IS DOING IT >EUROPE IS THE FUTURE
The fact alcohol is included is further evidence the latest guide “is more free of industry influence than any other before it,” said David Hammond, a professor in the school of public health at the University of Waterloo.
Hammond said the food guide is a bit more holistic, a bit more inclusive and extends a “more explicit nod” to the growing numbers of Canadians going vegetarian or vegan. >MORE AND MORE CANADIANS ARE GOING VEGAN AND VEGATARIAN >YOU SHOULD TOO >REMEMBER THAT WE'RE ONLY TELLING YOU TO DO WHAT YOU WANT TO DO
“Even if we had the advantage of another century of research,” he said, “we’re probably going to be recommending the same thing, which is that we should eat more fruits and vegetables, limit processed foods and don’t drink too much sugar.” >WE'RE SURE THIS IS THE FUTURE >BE PART OF IT
>After I drink all the milk from this here cow I'm gonna kill it and eat it They don't want men like you. They want onions boys- they are trying to legislate onions boys
Justin Johnson
>going vegetarian or vegan.
this is how they say 'being priced out of being able to afford meat' in commie dystopia speak.
they call starvation 'being too lean' and tell you it's your fault
While the food guide doesn't say to be vegan, it's definitely a step in the right direction considering meats are carcinogens filled with cholesterol and saturated fats.
>IRON (MEAT) INCREASES HIV LOADS >IRON (MEAT) CAUSES METABOLIC IMBALANCES >BE LIKE MONKEYS AND DON'T EAT MEAT Tom Hennessy We are in a new world, almost, one in which Science does in fact 'win out'. We, as a whole, are plagued with health problems. We as an animal, akin to an ape have many more health problems than an ape, that is evident. Now why is that? The big question. Could it be, humans are doing something wrong, which is not evident? Could it be so simple as one simple thing which is causing all disease in mankind, as opposed to the ape?
The hypothesis is, the abnormal buildup of iron in the human, from eating meat, causes all disease.
This abnormal buildup is curtailed by dietary deprivation of iron, low iron diet, and since the iron found in meat is absorbed at seven times the rate of the iron from every other source, makes meat not to be included in this low iron diet to prevent disease in humans.
Iron restriction is curing HIV, a person with a very low iron level, has one third the viral load as a person with a 'normal' iron load.
"Drug Found to Eradicate HIV Permanently from Infected Cells"
They tell us, 'a little too much iron is no big thing', when in fact, it IS a very big thing because it PROVES man to be an obligate frugivore-herbivore, cannot safely eat meat, without dying.
"“We conclude that, even at "normal” levels, iron exerts detrimental effects on ß-cell function that are reversible with dietary restriction or pharmacotherapy.“"
>MEAT IS AN ADDICTION Carl Drexler Sadly, it is always human nature to adopt what is convenient over facts. Meat-eaters who have been addicted to the taste will not easily give it up. Hence, the hemming, hawing, and rationalization as they are not prepared for such drastic change. But, change will have to, eventually, come for the sake of future generations and this planet, unless we live for the moment and are too shortsighted. This absolutely brilliant post outlines it all:
If one steps back, takes a deep breath, and thinks in an unbiased, non-defensive fashion, the world can get better. Our path is towards doom and disaster without major steps taken, despite the constant gainsaying and nay-saying. It is like alcoholics - unless one admits there is a problem and sees the light at the end of the tunnel, one will live in darkness forever. .
Lincoln Hernandez
Why does a Saudi crown-Prince pay people to shill against Canada on here?
Joseph Ross
You're not miserable with a vegan diet, quite the contrary. You can body build on a vegan diet too, there's a film coming out about that.
All memes.
Connor Hall
being pushed by the UNITED NATIONS and their fake "research" branches they fund.
>Where's the beef? Steaks snatched in rare Ontario meat theft
>Police say the homeowner left the meat for a short time only to find that it had seemingly vanished
>The meat was reported stolen on Monday from a family's garage where the homeowner was preparing the beef to be cooked for dinner.
>Police said the homeowner left for a short time only to return to find the steaks had seemingly vanished.
>OPP spokeswoman Const. Stacey Culbert said that while investigators often receive complaints about stolen food, capers involving stolen steaks are rare.
>"No, we don't investigate thefts of steaks from garages everyday, but to know there was either a person or a stranger in your home that breached that security for you is certainly worth calling the police over," she said Thursday.
I would REALLY love to be vegetarian. I hate having to eat meat. But I tried to eat vegan diet and unfortunately it also means a SHITON of fibers, beans, nuts, seeds to compensate. There is no other way around. If you stomach can't digest these without farting 500 times per day and pooping 20 times per day then you have no choice but to go with meat route. It fucking sucks I love animals and don't want to eat them but my self is more important than other animals. If you can sustain vegan diet than go ahead it's really tasty but I believe most people can't sustain this type of diet.
>OLD MAN KNOWS WHAT'S UP Walter E.Eibisberger Live Smith, looks like you have been brainwashed by the media. I am sorry you call good food sh**t; looks like you have too much of it. >REJECTING HELP FROM OLD MAN >CONDITIONING CANNOT BE BROKEN Clive Smith @Walter E.Eibisberger: I know what the definition of "brainwashing" is, and there is not an iota of truth to your grudging accusation.
>Some of these comments, if spoken 20 years ago, would be halfway to sending someone to an asylum. "MEAT IS AN ADDICTION"
Nicholas Lewis
he does with many cheap meat prices!
Jordan Allen
>Valinda Bennett OMG, theh police just need to sit on the some of the Winnipeg Buy and sell facebook pages. Tons of stolen stuff on there daily. Like whoever buys 12 large cans of coffee at a time. Or enough make-up to outfit a department store. Hell I've even seen someone selling 5 packs of meat on a buy & sell FB page, that you know darnwell was stolen.
Can someone check FB buy&sell pages and find some stolen meat/cheese for sale? What's the fence discount?
>INDEPENDENT MIND! >"DIETICIAN SAID I WAS GETTING FAR MORE FOOD THAN MY BODY NEEDED B Smith I've had more than enough of (expletive expletive) dieticians. While studying at UBC years ago, I tried the cafeteria service offered by the college food services. I thought my throat had been slit............. discussed with the head dietician............ a very vocal and animated discussion........... was told that I was getting far more than my body needed. Things deteriorated to the point where I needed a second dinner late in the evening. Luckily, Varsity Grill on 10th ave stayed open late. Had it not been for Bing, and his generous servings, I would have starved to death long before graduation. Health Canada, and it's ticky-tacky dietary recommendations, needs to be completely ignored. Like the CBC, this is yet another of many government 'perpetual coffee-breaks' that needs to be disbanded!
James Thomas
this is some 1989 DDR propaganda tier bullshit in these comments. canadian shills are out in force
Zachary Barnes
Practical policies having a freer market though you're subsidized is better than having supply management.
Enjoy it.
Oliver Martinez
I drink kefir instead of milk. It’s a fermented dairy drink. It’s more expensive and I don’t like the taste but hopefully it’s good for me.
>SHILL DOING DAMAGE CONTROL Clive Smith Why are there so many misguided people spouting off here? Nobody, certainly not the government, is mandating anything here. Do you know the meaning of the word, "guidelines"? It is voluntary, bro!
Adam Reyes
Not everybody can process legumes like you Most people fart them and poop them out visciously Also it's not as easy as you say, you need complete protein, so you need to mix sources of different proteins (nuts, legumes, beans, grains) to get complete proteins Vegetarian diet is way harder to control and you also need B12 vitamins and other supplements
Nicholas Gutierrez
You can make kefir at home for pennies on the dollar. It's so yummy if you add fruit or vanilla to it. It's way healthy too
Check culturesforhealths website out they have a kit for it
>HAS SPOTTED GOVERNMENT LIES Vlad Liapko Here are we go. It says "You go to any grocery store in Europe, the dairy section is very small — you can barely find milk". In my experience, the dairy section in Europe is much reacher than in Canada. All kind of yougurts, hard and soft cheeses and other dairy products you never find here unless maybe some in a European dali.
No it doesn't You neee cholesterol to survive which no other food BUT meat produces
Your body even makes it.... and people have to eat meat when their body is incapable of it.
(((Scientist))) pushed the meme that its bad alongside with fat of animals .... y'all fell for for it and got sicker
Look at the (((meds))) for it. Killing and hurting people left and right
>>>What causes heart disease All these plebs eating fake food like McDonald's and Burger King drinking tons of soda.... sugaaaaaarrrr
Aiden White
Yeah fuck that
I enjoy my black and wild rice, with organic free range eggs, cabbage, olive oil, avocados, and thankfully beef and lamb prices are competing so I no longer care for beef, I strictly eat lamb meat
I also fast intermittently and it's great. I can eat all of the healthy food I desire and the food prices don't bother me.
So if that was my Government's goal then they are forcing many people to stick to that which is kind of eye opening
>MEAT PROTEIN IS OBSOLETE Gabriel Solomon Protein doesn't mean meat anymore. Protein means protein, and lots of stuff has protein in it.
>VEGETABLES HAVE PLENTY OF PROTEIN Clive Smith Read some useful material and you will educate yourself about the plethora of protein sources found in vegetables! Really!
>SEES LIBERAL BULLSHIT >KNOWS ANIMAL PROTEIN IS NEEDED FOR HUMAN BRAINS >BASED EVEN FOR A MAN Mo Jones Good grief. Why do Liberal radicals have to aggressively try to seep their politics into every aspect and corner of our lives? If these idiots were so concerned with our country's health they would never have legalized pot so that growing children can get their hands on it so much easier.
It's also known scientific fact that while plant protein is perfectly acceptable and delicious to eat, it is NOT as complete as animal protein. Eating animal protein is the main reason why human developed larger brains. Plant eaters are generally the dumb, irritable, aggressive creatures in the animal kingdom - just look at hippos, rhinoceri and vegans.
Human beings need to consume animal protein - and consuming milk, eggs, cheese and meat are great ways to do that. This food guide sends the wrong message to the more weak-minded among us - ie. liberal snowflakes - who will then mistakenly influence and interfere in the diets of children, teens, pregnant women and the elderly.
Joshua Morris
>Burger King Check out some BK prices from Montreal
>eat like livestock >eventually start feeling like livestock >eventually start thinking like livestock Now would be a good time to go on the beaver, bobcat, and moose-nose jelly diet.
this is fucking retarded, theres literally meat and eggs in the protein category. By the way everyone should eat less meat and eggs and cheese and shit and eat more fruits and vegetables and healthy carbs like rice and beans. Not saying you should go vegan but definitely stop stuffing ridiculous amounts of meat down your throat. People 100 years ago never ate ridiculous amounts of meat like we do today and even when they did eat meat it was smaller portions and also the animals werent genetically engineered to be fat fucks. This diet that is in the picture is actually pretty healthy.
James Sanders
IN CANADA THEY CALL STARVATION:
'BEING TOO LEAN'
user you are too lean. that's too bad.
Easton Cooper
You have to eat tons of plant food like 4x more to get the small amount of protein meat offers and not as high quality, harder to digest and not as easily accessible for your body to consume. Also being a vegetarian is worse for the enviornment
Ex vegetarian PETA got me at age 12.... Ignores all those horrible animal factory farms are kosher Jew and Muslim Hallal meat and forced because muhhh satanic animal sacrifices
Buys meat from wholesome white people don't got that problem anymore
Thomas Mitchell
leave the fruits and increase the protein. be ready for mad gains
Austin Smith
>Most people fart them and poop them out visciously Just nosense, really. The human body can process legumes no problem for most people.
>complete protein you get that without effort on a complete vegan diet.
>b12 vitamins 90% of all b12 supplements in the world are fed to livestock which is why meat has higher b12 today. But even eaters of this supplemented meat can lack in b12. Given we wash our food and our water today we have to supplement b12, the question is where. They add it to almond, coconut, rice and soi beverages.
>other supplements not needed. Unless you know you're unable to get enough of something due to blood tests there's no need to go out of your way to supplement anything but b12.
I'm a vegan, I don't take a b12 pill, I drink supplemented beverage and g-fuel and my b12 level is in the middle of the recommended range. I've been eating vegan for 4.5 months.
Parker Gutierrez
you're a shitty cringe compilation meme
Mason Green
if canada was a video game setting it would have a 'are you sure?' window that pops up when you click it.
>IS ASKING USA TO ANNEX CANADA Maudite Caliss Our Parliamentary system was designed for a disconnected, rural society of serfs and peasants.
The Government of Canada as it stands is an anachronism; an outdated, bloated trough for globalist socialists and their friends to feed from at our expense.
Dissolve the Federal Government, break the Provinces up into more sensible geographic masses and apply for Statehood under the U.S. Constitution.
Ayden King
you'd swear it was based off a dead beat dad who abuses his children's dietary guidelines.
Brayden White
Reposting meats from my local super market. Again sorry about them being sideways. Im at work.
This agenda has gone too far. The jews are destroying everything. When will it ever be enough for most people? What will be the tipping point? In my lifetime, will I live to see an actual legit real holocaust of the jews. I pray to god and hope that I do
