Canada's Food Guide
This section of Canada's Food Guide turned heads in 2019 when it was named after a nutrient instead of its former food group name.
What is protein?
With the exception of this vitamin, micronutrients are not produced in the body and must come from one's diet.
What is vitamin D?
________ are the building blocks of protein.
What are amino acids?
This type of carbohydrate is better for you.
What are complex carbs?
These fats have been traditionally classified as "bad fats."
What are trans and saturated fats?
Lionel Pett prevented Indigenous children in a Nova Scotian residential school (Shubenacadie) from receiving this type of health care after researchers noticed that students were deficient of vitamin C and developing gingivitis.
What is dental care?
This classification of minerals have a natural positive or negative charge when they are dissolved in water.
What are electrolytes?
Proteins that supply all 9 essential amino acids.
What are complete proteins?
Four grams of sugar equates to this measurement.
What is one teaspoon?
Omega-3 can be found in this type of fat.
What are polyunsaturated fats?
The first edition of Canada's Official Food Rules, later to be known as Canada's Food Guide, was released during this war after 43% of the first 50,000 military recruits were rejected on account of being malnourished.
What is World War Two (1942)?
If you eat more of this classification of vitamin than you need, the leftovers will be stored in the body's fat and in the liver. You can draw on these reserves when needed.
What are fat-soluble vitamins?
Spinach salad with sesame seeds and almond salad dressing is an example of...
What are complementary proteins?
This type of carbohydrate is faster to digest.
What are simple carbs?
Research has shown that consuming too many trans fats can lead to an increase of this "bad" form of cholesterol which, in turn, begins to build up as plaque in the walls of your blood vessels.
What is LDL (low-density lipoprotein) cholesterol?
The 2019 version of Canada's Food Guide insists that we enjoy our food, integrate culture and food traditions into our eating, and ______.
What is eating meals with others?
Thiamin, riboflavin, vitamin B6, folate, vitamin B12, biotin, and vitamin C all fall under this type of vitamin.
What are water-soluble vitamins?
This equation is used to give a general idea of how much protein an individual should consume in a day.
What is weight x 2 divided by 5?
These three elements make up carbohydrates.
What are carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen?
This term is used to describe the impact that fat has on the body, in that, it makes an individual feel full longer because the body takes longer to digest the nutrient.
What is satiety?
This version of Canada's Food Guide was heavily critiqued by the Canadian public for listening to the demands of the Grocery Products Manufacturing Council, the Canadian Meat Council, the Dairy Bureau of Canada, and the Canadian Egg Marketing Agency-- so much so that Bill Paul commented that the "four food groups should be renamed the four lobby groups."
What is Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating (1992)
This vitamin makes proteins that cause our blood to clot when you are bleeding.
What is vitamin K?
The primary function of protein.
What are building and repairing body tissue, maintaining cell growth, and forming a healthy immune system?
Carbohydrates convert to these products in the body.
What is glucose then energy?
If an individual's fat intake surpasses this percentage of their total calorie intake, they have an increased risk of getting heart disease or becoming obese.
What is 35 percent?