Who makes your food guide?

Pandorian
Pandorian Posts: 2,055 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Nice write-up that I read about the Canadian Food Guide

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2012/07/27/f-food-guide-70.html

Couple clips
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After the Dairy Bureau of Canada and the Canadian Egg Marketing Agency both objected that the proposed guide had reduced the number of servings of their industry's products, that number was also increased in the final version.
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Mosby writes that "the Food Rules closely mirrored the interests of Canada's main domestic agricultural producers," and the promotion of agriculture was one of the central goals.
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"I can't think of anyone with greater conflicts of interest in the creation of a food guide than the folks who sell and promote the food," wrote Dr. Yoni Freedhoff, medical director of the Bariatric Medical Institute in Ottawa, in 2006.

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  • ElizabethRoad
    ElizabethRoad Posts: 5,138 Member
    Dammit, Canada. We here in the US like to think you're better than that.
  • pdworkman
    pdworkman Posts: 1,342 Member
    The Canada food guide is pretty much a mirror image of the USDA food guide. Some slight differences in sizes of fruit servings and such. And the USDA food guide wasn't funded by the meat and dairy industry, right? :laugh:
  • ockara
    ockara Posts: 33 Member
    Yea, USDA food guide makers are definitely a major conflict of interest. Big surprise!

    http://networkedblogs.com/lMhWu
  • PaleoPath4Lyfe
    PaleoPath4Lyfe Posts: 3,161 Member
    The Canada food guide is pretty much a mirror image of the USDA food guide. Some slight differences in sizes of fruit servings and such. And the USDA food guide wasn't funded by the meat and dairy industry, right? :laugh:

    More like funded by the dairy and grain councils.
  • ockara
    ockara Posts: 33 Member
    Absolutely!

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