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Canada’s food Guide: a Canadian success story
Today I am proud to be Canadian. Health Canada released the Canada’s food guide this morning. It is progressive, evidence-based, intuitive and healthier for Canadians and for the planet. The biggest changes? Removing dairy as a food group is the biggest change. Food groups are created to group nutritionally similar foods together intended to deliver key nutrients to the population. Dairy was seen as essential because the combination of protein, calcium and vitamin… -
How I ate double my protein requirement, on a vegan diet
The Buzz around protein As a vegan dietitian I often get people asking me if it is even possible to get enough protein on a vegan diet. High protein diets are SO popular right now. We seem to be obsessed with protein, as a society, and many processed foods are marketed as 'healthy' because they are good sources of protein. But, the reality is that, in North America and in Europe where we hear so…
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