Tag: Nutritional Requirements

Balance Factor
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The Kind(er) Choice

Who doesn’t love peanut butter and chocolate together?  KIND bars have captured that perfect combination in, not 2, but 3 of their bars.  KIND has a Peanut Butter and Dark Chocolate Healthy Grains Bar, a Dark Chocolate and Peanut Butter Healthy Grains Bar, and a Peanut Butter and Dark Chocolate Bar. How on earth do

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Eating
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Just Planting an Idea

It is important that we don’t offer simple nutritional advice at the risk that it may do more harm than good. A perfect example from the 1970’s, was Health Canada suggesting fat intake be reduced from 40% of one’s daily calories to a healthier 35%. The result was a ‘low fat/fat free’ movement that accelerated

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Food Guide
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Canada’s Food Guide – It’s a …..!

It’s here!  The new Canada Food Guide was announced on Jan. 22, 2019 at 10:00 am in Montreal, Quebec by the Honourable Minister of Health Ginette Petitpas-Taylor.  Being so anticipated, it was more like a birth announcement than a revealing. Here’s the scoop.  Where the food guides from the past have had specific instructions based

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Individuality
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Can Our Earth Truly Sustain Only One Type of Diet?

  On the eve of the launch of Canada’s new food guide, let’s look at the big picture.  According to Health Canada, the new guide will encourage the usual whole grains, vegetables, and fruits but will also push for the consumption of plant-based proteins found in beans, legumes, and soy. This doesn’t mean that Health

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Food Science
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Who Declared War Against Meat?

  Canada’s so-called ‘Protein War’ is the latest nutrition-related headline trending across the country.  Apparently, we are at war with ourselves over how much meat we are eating.  And yet, there is no guidance or definition on how much meat is too much.  A research team from Dalhousie University states that Canadians are considering reducing

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