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Health Canada Announces Healthy Eating Strategy
Today Health Canada announced that they have started a process to revise Canada’s Food Guide to reflect the latest scientific evidence on diet and health, and to better support Canadians in making healthy food choices.
Oct 24 / 2016
Call for public comments on scoping of reviews and updating of WHO guidelines on the intake of carbohydrates, polyunsaturated fatty acids and non-sugar sweeteners
The WHO Department of Nutrition for Health and Development (NHD), through the work of the Nutrition Guidance Expert Advisory Group (NUGAG) Subgroup on Diet and Health, is updating the population nutrient intake goals for the prevention of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) established in 1989 by the WHO Study Group on Diet, Nutrition and Prevention of Noncommunicable Diseases and later updated by the 2002 Joint WHO/FAO Expert Consultation on Diet, Nutrition and the Prevention of Chronic Diseases
Oct 18 / 2016
Doctors' Notes: Watch out for “free” sugar in foods
Source: The Star
Too much sugar is a bad thing — but figuring out how much you’re consuming is more of a challenge than it should be.
Oct 10 / 2016