Raw Food Revolution
Posted on November 8, 2009 | Category: Alternative, Health, Healthy Eating
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I’ve spent many hours over the last few of months reading everything I can get my hands on about nutrition. As a nurse I have a pretty good background in understanding how the body works, and what we need. Most nutritionists are still following ‘Canada’s food Guide’ which closely resembles the recommended eating plan supported by the American government. (Do they call it a food pyramid?)
Well I don’t think there is a nutritional purist on the planet that would begin to accept what the government recommends that we eat for health!
Let me explain
Or better yet, allow a medical doctor with a passion for nutritional awareness explain.
On the blog Weighty Matters, in the post entitled Canada’s Food Guide to Unhealthy Eating Dr Freedhoff says
I believe that Canadians deserve a Food Guide that reflects medicine’s best understanding of the effect of diet on chronic disease prevention.
I also believe that Canadians deserve a Food Guide that will not make them gain weight if they follow it.
Here’s the guide.
OK so first off I don’t want to get into a huge analysis of the Food Guide. Suffice to say that
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