As Health Canada signals a more science-based approach to food policy, including a complete revamping of Canada’s Food Guide, nutrition experts are cautiously optimistic it will help curb the rise in obesity and other diet-related illnesses plaguing a growing number of Canadians.
For the last 50 years the food guide has focused on a high-carbohydrate, low-fat diet—a diet that is increasingly being blamed for diseases such as obesity and diabetes.
