Reading Time: 4 minutes We need clear warning labels on the front of unhealthy food products and legislation that protects children from marketing
Tag: Nutrition
Drinking the plant-based diet kool-aid
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canada’s Food Guide plant-based diet is, for the most part, elitist. Many of us can’t indulge because of a lack of access, affordability or convenience
Canada’s Food Guide: New dish, with a dash of condescension
Reading Time: 4 minutes After years of celebrating our agricultural know-how, the guide has gone urban – and is more than a little patronizing
Protein wars ramp up as Canadians slowly move away from meat
Reading Time: 4 minutes A new study indicates that 6.4 million Canadians have either adopted a meatless diet or are limiting the meat they eat
Canada’s new Healthy Eating Strategy will pay huge dividends
Reading Time: 3 minutes Proposed new Food Guide and nutrition labelling policies are crucial to helping Canadians achieve better health
Drawing on rich traditions to nourish our children
Reading Time: 4 minutes Poor nutrition in Indigenous children, starting with colonization, through residential schools, continues today. It must stop
The diet you’re on is likely a pretty good one
Reading Time: 4 minutes As long as you don’t eat carbohydrates, fats and protein to extreme levels, you should be just fine
Food is medicine where malnutrition and frailty are concerned
Reading Time: 4 minutes Malnutrition common problem for patients entering health care facilities in Canada – costing the system $2 billion annually
Food banks plant roots for the long term
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canada’s food banks are embracing gardens and greenhouses, cooking classes and more to help clients achieve greater food security
Most Canadians don’t understand food nutrition labels
Reading Time: 3 minutes How simplifying and standardizing food labels can help with better food choices