hi everyone Michael Lanfield here and
thank you for joining me
so here is the Canada's Food Guide and I
want to talk a little bit more about
this and actually the details about this
guide is on the government website so
you can find more about that at Canada
that see a slash food guide so let's see
what this is now this is a black and
white version of monochrome version and
it's not in color but and it's not
really that high quality but this is the
little pamphlet that I found in Brampton
when I was living there and I wanted to
now just talk about it even though I
might have talked a little bit about it
in my one of my previous videos so
here's the Canada food guide and earlier
this year people were raving about how
much plant foods are mentioned in this
guide and actually how there's really no
mention of meat dairy or eggs even
though one group is called protein group
so this is a power as the would he call
it as the US Gaia food guideline says
it's a pod like a power plate but really
it's the food guide that's what they
call it a food guide and so here we have
have plenty and vegetables and fruits so
that is the biggest portion on the plate
as you can see it's about half of the
plate now as you can probably see here
some apples maybe some berries some
carrots broccoli now a lot of this looks
to me looks cooked a lot of it I don't
know if you can see it by the camera but
a lot of it looks cooked but you can see
that half of it is fruits and vegetables
now you're not
not talking about about papayas and
mangoes and pineapples because these
really don't grow in Canada so they're
talking about things that really can
grow in Canada so it's really about
locally grown food so a lot of this
looks cooked and of course because most
people eat cooked foods and it says half
plenty of fruits
sorry vegetables and fruits so they
emphasize on vegetables though of course
a lot of people consider tomatoes and
zucchinis and even squash to be
considered vegetables and they're
actually fruit because they contain a
seed so these might be some kind of
potato these may be some kind of cabbage
maybe celery here or maybe maybe even
thinly sliced carrot sticks apples
possibly even yeah these look like
apples strawberries some kind of berries
here broccoli carrot either carrots
action so this might be celery some
green leafy greens as you can see here
so half the plate already is filled with
fruits and vegetables which is a very
very good sign now I would say this
portion in my opinion this portion
should be at least three-quarters of the
plate now let's go to grain foods and it
says there are two whole grain foods X
on whole grains so you can see here some
kind of grain some kind of rice here
pasta another some type of grain it's
hard to see with the with the with black
and white and then of course a piece of
bread so this means that minimum 50% of
your plate
should be fruits and vegetables they
don't specify exactly what percentage
fruits of what pizzamas vegetable then
1/4 25% your diet should be grains whole
grains which is a great thing that
they're doing is they're specifying
whole grains specifying whole grains and
here eat protein foods so this is
somewhat misleading this category here
25% is misleading because now it's
saying that this part and this part have
absolutely no protein so what they might
be saying is eat foods that are higher
in protein okay so this eat protein
foods is really misleading because what
they should have said is eat foods
higher in protein or eat higher protein
foods instead of just protein foods
because everything has protein in it and
adequate amounts of protein as the World
Health Organization says that minimum of
2.5 percent of our calories total
calories should be coming from protein
minimum of 2.5 percent of our total
calories coming from protein now I
really don't know what these are
did these can be beans these can be like
it's really hard to read her to see with
with you know it being black and white
but this looks like an egg like a cut-up
egg hard boiled egg
these look like beans and some nuts I
don't know what this is it could be
piece of meat or something and this
right here could be anything could it be
some kind of yogurt even even coconut
yogurt or soy yogurt we just don't know
what that is and here this looks like
blocks of tofu and
some kind of nuts and seeds here so kind
of nuts and seeds so really and I don't
know what this is here see I don't know
what that is but this but if you look at
the whole entire plate here and I would
call it a power plate power plate
actually is I think what dr.neil barnard
calls his plate power plate but anyways
I would say three-quarters of this plate
are good I mean this grains is not
optimal but it's still good there's good
better and best so this is good it's not
the best but it's good and it's good if
it means getting people going vegan at
least I don't care what they eat as long
as people get going vegan and eating
vegan whole foods not junk foods now of
course once in a while eating beyond
meat or any alternative meat products is
a good thing
Whole Foods is even better now let's go
to the next page actually no before we
go to the next page let's look at this
make water your drink so in the US
whatever they call the plate the food
guide they have milk as the other little
plate or little top have you but here
they're as telling you the Canadian
government make water your drink of
choice so that is a good thing make
water your drink of choice now this is
coming from Health Canada okay
again have plenty of vegetables and
fruits eat well live well eat a variety
of healthy food each day let's go to the
next page so here it really doesn't say
anything it just says be mindful body no
okay
not much okay so let's see this is
healthy eating recommendations so
healthy eating is more than the foods
you eat it's also about where when and
why and how you eat take time to eat
very good be mindful of your eating
habits excellent this is really
excellent recommendations and take time
to eat it doesn't say how long to eat
but take time to eat so don't eat in a
hurry but take time notice when you're
hungry and when you're full of course
that's common sense what people don't
realize that cook more often plan what
you eat now cook more often I would say
eating Raw's best and they should have
at least included some raw in this
recommendation but cook more often this
really doesn't mean anything as in vegan
advocacy or eating healthier but I guess
what they mean is don't go out to eat
and cook more often on home involve
others in planning and preparing meals
yeah so it's more fun and enjoyable
enjoy your food culture and food
traditions can be a part of healthy
eating eat meals with others so this is
emails and others should have been
undercooked more often because involve
others and planning and preparing meals
I would have done this a little bit
differently but anyways I would have
said eat fruit aha the whole thing would
have been eat fruit but not everyone's
gonna eat only fruit eat plenty of
vegetables and fruits whole grains and
protein food ok protein foods protein
foods could be anything tuned here
choose protein foods that come from
plants more often okay
so eat plenty of vegetables and fruits
whole grains and foods whole grain foods
and protein foods so one thing that can
the food guide and Health Canada is
really weak on is that they think that
fruits vegetables whole grains do not
have any protein or very little and they
have another category again protein
foods choose foods with healthy fats
instead of saturated fat so here they're
being ambiguous they're not telling you
the whole truth and that's true
saturated fat instead of such advice but
the industry the meat dairy and egg
industry would be furious if they said
limit or eliminate or limit your intake
of animal products meat dairy and eggs
instead they have to say saturated fat
because here industry would be an uproar
so they cannot say eliminate or minimize
your intake of meat dairy and eggs they
can't say that so they have to put
saturated fat because most saturated fat
comes from animal products some high
saturated fatty foods are things like
coconut and stuff like that maybe nuts
and seeds I believe as well limit highly
processed foods excellent they should
have said eliminate highly processed
foods or minimize as much as possible if
you choose these foods eat them are less
often and in small amounts
and they don't specify the amount here
which in some way it's good that some
way it's not good because then people
will be like well I can eat two handfuls
and that's small amounts you know to
them so prepare meals and snacks using
ingredients that are little to no added
sodium sugar or saturated fat that's
good
choose healthier menu options when
eating out now healthier people would
think Oh chicken and fish because people
think chicken and fish are healthier now
this is a good thing make water your
drink of choice replace sugary drinks
with water now instead of sugary drinks
they should have said sugary fruit
drinks and colas something like done and
here this use food labels is very
general that doesn't really mean
anything
be aware that food marketing can
influence your choices now this is
pretty good this last sentence here
the last point food be aware that food
marketing can influence your choices now
they had to be very careful about what
they said here otherwise industry could
have made a claim or sued them if they
said something like I don't know if they
said it differently they could have
again be sued or made a claim against
but here they had to be very very
careful but what they said okay now I'm
gonna go to the computer and I want to
show you
this power this plate they call food
guide in color to see if maybe we can
find out what these foods are exactly so
I'll be back in a moment I'm back and
I'm gonna check and they'll show you
right here what these foods are so as we
saw here in this section and this
actually is rotating here I want to
pause it and put it back here okay so
let's make this screen bigger second
actually no it's okay um okay so as you
can see here that's broccoli carrots
berries apples tomatoes yes that's
peppers actually so that's a fruit so
that's sweet peppers and that could also
be cucumber the green stuff these are
potatoes and I think on the left side is
either squash or sweet potato now
these grains are some kind of grains
here and pasta this is ambiguous I don't
know what this white thing is there this
white thing could be some kind of
margarine butter or most like the
yogurts or even sour cream or anything
like that and it could either be
plant-based or meat these will really
look like tofu these of course of beans
this one looks like to me like a fish
that's of course an egg
this to me this one right here could be
the tofu based or some kind of meat and
this also really looks like meat but
then again it could be deceiving it
could be tofu
we don't really know these are of course
nuts that's some some kind of soybean I
don't know if it's all been or what it
is exactly
these look like pumpkin seeds of course
these look like lima beans if I'm not
mistaken it does look like I can't
remember the names of those but this is
an egg for sure so we know there's egg
and we know there's some kind of
substance that made these substances may
not be vegan almost not vegan okay so
this part here right here in color is
not vegan at all okay there's only a few
things in between that are vegan
this looks really like fish to my eyes
this is a dustman egg now this whole
thing technically could be plant-based
and you could have an egg just like that
vegan you can have a fish just like that
vegan you could have meat just like that
vegan you can have sour cream or some
kind of yogurt vegan definitely these
are tofu so all this can be mechanized
all of this whatever here is not vegan
can be mechanized and still contain
substantial amounts of protein okay so
that's really what I wanted to mention
here is just look at that plate and here
they have
more information more than the pamphlet
gave us so food choices let's see what
they offer here I'm gonna check this out
here so food choices so this is the same
thing that the book the pamphlet had so
when you click on each of these I guess
it goes into more detail ok so here we
go protein foods such as legumes lean
meats lower fat yogurt so they do
promote animal products as you can see
yogurt and legumes
I'm sorry yogurt and meat so which means
that on that picture that we were just
seeing a moment ago those things must
have been meat and yogurt if they're if
they're advertising it here or if
they're promoting it here
so the things that were on the plate as
well could have been quinoa wild rice
and whole grain pasta and I also the
stuff on the other side on the left side
what was apples carrots broccoli so
let's just go to recipes for a moment
and see what the recipes include ok
let's see I'm just gonna choose a few
options so classic overnight oats so
here we have yogurt low-fat plain yogurt
and lower fat milk or on sweetened
fortified soy beverage or water so there
you go it's totally not the
let's go to another breakfast okay six
eggs six eggs holy for one meal service
for okay so one enough egg for each
person I believe yeah woman have egg for
each person
skim milk canola oil oh boy so they
don't realize that you can make this
vegan you can substitute for the egg you
can substitute scrambled tofu so you can
put tofu in there with a little bit of
turmeric and black salt now for the skim
milk you can substitute other plant
alternatives plant milks and for the
canola oil you can use coconut oil it's
much better but then again I would limit
or eliminate totally oils and just use a
nonstick pan and use water okay let's
try another breakfast item strawberry
pancakes let's try this
skim milk one egg
skim milk in one egg so it's not telling
us to eliminate again to eliminate
animal products you can substitute milk
again for alternative milk products like
soy and had been in coconut and oat and
all sorts of other and egg you can
replace it with applesauce or you can
replace it with banana or you can place
it with ground flax seed or you can
replace it with egg replacer all sorts
of things okay so there's no excuse for
animal abuse and animal use let's try
lunch and dinner cheesy broccoli toast
again cheesy but light cheddar cheese
grated light okay so it's gonna have a
little bit less fat maybe but light
cheddar cheese well it doesn't even tell
you what type of bread it does this
whole-grain bread and a lot of whole
grain bread includes a lot of chemicals
and a lot of animal ingredients so let's
see colorful quinoa salad so so far all
the meals that I checked out all have
animal ingredients in them
let's see quinoa sodium reduce that
double broth minced garlic carrot time
canola okay so this one seems like it is
vegan
so the first
the first recipe that's vegan okay which
is good so this is a solid and good
thing it doesn't have any any chicken on
top or anything like that now let's see
lentil soup let's try out this ginger
lentil soup canola oil onion garlic
ginger cumin black pepper carrots
lentils and vegetable broth
good so it doesn't say chicken broth or
doesn't say beef broth or anything like
that so and it says here no added salt
great no added salt in that so there's
another meal that's fully vegan that's
lunchbox
tuna salad wrap coleslaw okay let's see
what about the coleslaw and what that
includes coleslaw I thought coleslaw
would have been mayonnaise or something
like that but red cabbage or green
cabbage carrots
I need much oil vinegar and pepper to
taste
excellent another vegan item so they do
have a lot of the items that see potato
pancakes let's see
carrots potatoes onions flour baking
powder excellent no animal ingredients
they get all OH
let's go back I missed that for eggs for
eggs so each person will have one egg
well a lot of cholesterol in the diet
added cholesterol which we don't need ah
let's see okay let's try this dish right
here which is the Middle Eastern dish
olive oil onions cumin brown or wild
rice and lentils now why would he need
sodium reduce lentils doesn't make sense
lentils just lentil so you don't need to
reduce your sodium you need to reduce
the salt intake this salt intake natural
sodium from plants is alright even in
larger quantities here mac and cheese
with a veggie twist here we go let's see
what it says here
whole-grain macaroni hydrogenated non
hydrogenated margarine okay so that's a
good start non-hydrogenated the
margarine it's almost never vegan it
contains a way which is a byproduct of
milk or an ingredient of milk onion
garlic carrot bell pepper zucchini flour
doesn't just as all-purpose flour
skim milk could be alternative milk time
cheddar cheese light old cheddar cheese
that could be substitute for vegan
cheese but then again it's not a whole
food so
but you can make cheddar cheese from
what's that you can make cheddar cheese
from a key so a key is a plant and if
you get really a ripe a key you can
substitute it for cheese and some people
say it wasn't the ending a dehydrator a
little bit it is more like cheese
these are mustards so this not
necessarily is a vegan product the most
Dijon mustard that I've seen are vegan
pinch of fresh ground pepper so this is
not a vegan meal so most meals here are
not vegan
let's see quinoa vegetable casserole see
Turkey up here so really people are
praising the food guide let's go back
she would all stay they offer before I
close this video so let's go back let's
go see again let's see what it says in
the water so there's more information
lots of
raishin here you can click on each one
and you can read all about it it goes to
a new page of course changes on food
labels all kinds of things according to
Wow changes on food labels in the next
four years be aware of that food mark
let's see what they say here about food
marketing branding
so the general thing about food
marketing and what you need to know
about it so it really doesn't talk about
the meat dairy and eggs it just as mark
marketing and promoting these food you
know in general let's see limits highly
processed foods see sodium is good but
not in the process form the added form
processed sugars are not good but sugars
and fruit are good so here it's really
vague sodium is sugar and so people
think Oh sugar so don't eat fruit lemmya
through eat more vegetables and that's
why the Government of Canada says eat
your vegetables and fruits and they put
vegetable first in front of fruit
processed meats all processed meats all
meats are processed in some way so
really eating too much has been linked
to higher risk of colorectal cancer can
also be called pull against all rectal
cancer ah healthy snacks hard-boiled
eggs is a healthy snack again protein
foods right here protein foods that are
being very very misleading very
misleading
again choose healthcare are many options
what means healthier could mean anything
okay let's go back
go back and let's go to the main page
here eating habits tips resources all
this stuff and they have in so many
different languages all this stuff okay
see what it says about be mindful
reading habits
ah how did he eaten eat slowly were you
distracted and eat with others while you
ate where you're hungry wasn't off
offered to you when you ate what time
wasn't along all this stuff further
reading so it's not bad the food guide
is definitely not bad but it's it
definitely could be improved for sure
cook more often let's see what this says
benefits are quickly cooking choose
protein foods that come from plants more
often look what it says there choose
protein foods that come from plants more
often but a lot of the ingredients lost
or a lot of the recipes included meat
dairy and eggs so this is misleading
here
canned tuna or salmon to add to it a
salad or sandwich okay so a lot of this
is really misleading especially when it
says protein foods and eat more more
plants so these are really misleading
eat more plants than other foods meal
planning bonding on a budget healthy
snacks school home all this stuff so
again the food guide is definitely a
good step in the direction and over the
years it's gonna get even better and
better so next four or five years when
veganism skyrockets especially Whole
Foods whole plant foods we're gonna see
this section most of this section get
wiped out from the whole entire plate
you're gonna start seeing more people
eating fruits and vegetables more
recommendations for fruits and
vegetables little bit less for whole
grains and definitely less for this
section
especially to dairy the eggs and the
meat so now we know from their
recommendations and the meals and the
recipes that they offer these are
definitely eggs meat and that is some
kind of yogurt and that is probably a
fish so now we know that this plate is
definitely not vegan it's not vegan but
it contains more vegan options it gains
more plants than ever and it does not
say up here up here to drink milk which
is great so in contrast let's look
the US Food Guide the United States Food
Guide I don't know what is it called but
US government official food guide now
they call it choosemyplate.gov II ah
it's not loading for some reason okay I
don't know what's going on but their
website does not work so it's called my
plate and the Neal Barnard was power
plate okay I got those big stuff okay so
it just seems like their website is down
which is crazy because the government's
websites are usually never now but here
it seems like it's down for some reason
so let's see if we can find some images
so here is the choose my plate okay
fruits vegetables grains and protein
it's pretty good it's just like the
Canadian one but here we have dairy as
you can see dairy right there okay so
that's the only difference is the dairy
is still a big part of dairy producers I
still have a big part influence in US
government but it's still not bad but
they have to change the protein section
and call it something different because
everything
here has protein in it so this is again
misleading just like the Canadian food
guide so that's about it everyone thanks
for joining me I know this has been a
longer video but this is really goes
into the details if you want to know
more and you want to read everything to
do with the Canada's Food Guide do
please check out the website I'm not
recommending that you follow the food
guide by any means but just to give you
information about what the Canada
government is really recommending and
it's definitely a really good step in
the right direction but it's definitely
not vegan it's definitely not whole food
it's sympathizing more Whole Foods it's
definitely emphasizing eating less
processed foods but it's definitely not
vegan that's for sure so thanks for
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