Eat more plants, less meat

What is a healthy diet?

New Year’s diet conversations still abound around water coolers Canada-wide as people debate the various merits and shortcomings of sugar, gluten, meat, dairy, tofu and other edibles.  Scientific articles, shiny celebrities and representatives of various groups who produce, transform and sell food all compete for our attention as we try to figure out what to eat. 

How is anyone supposed to know who to listen to?

Canadians’ traditional solution to this conundrum has been to turn to our Food Guide -- that familiar rainbow of foods that many of us learned about in elementary school.