[upbeat music]
 What do I have
for breakfast today?
Let's see...
orange juice,
milk, and water.
Which one should I choose?
Until a few days ago,
any of these things
would have been fine.
But then...
Health Canada
released a new food guide,
and two of these things
were dropped from the menu.
So why did Health
Canada make this change?
The Canada Food Guide
is more than just
a colourful page: it's truly
a powerful resource.
It might be
hard to believe,
but the last time that the
food guide was updated,
there was no such
thing as an iPhone.
And can any of us
here even imagine
a time without an iPhone?
While previous food guides
were static documents,
this one is
truly different.
It will continue to be
updated with the latest
dietary knowledge
over the coming years.
The government has its
reasons for making
the change, but I'm
not sure that I get
all the science behind it.
I decided to visit a
nutrition expert to find out
more about why Canada
has lost its taste
for juice and milk.
Come on, let's go inside.
Let's talk about juice.
In the old food guide,
half a cup of 100 per cent
fruit juice was one
serving of fruit and veggies.
Now, it's not
there at all.
What do you think?
I think that's a
positive change.
So with juice, it
contains so much sugar,
actually
equivalent to pop,
and you're missing out on
some of the nutrients from
the whole fruit
or vegetable, like fiber.
So I think we need to
focus on getting in
the whole fruit instead
of in juice form.
How many teaspoons
of sugar are there
in a glass of juice and how
many vitamins are there?
A juice box would consist
of about six teaspoons
of sugar, so quite a bit.
Equivalent to a
small can of pop.
In terms of vitamins, it
does contain vitamin C,
but that's about it and
it's easy to find vitamin C
in real fruits and
veggies, too.
Lower fat milk is in
the protein category,
alongside lower fat
yogurts and lower fat cheeses.
But it no longer
has its own section.
What was your
reaction to this?
Well, I think especially
for kids your age,
it's going to be hard to
meet calcium needs without
focusing on milk, dairy,
or fortified alternatives.
How else can kids and
teens get their calcium?
So we can get calcium
through lots of different foods.
Leafy greens have
calcium in them,
although I know not a
favourite of most kids.
Broccoli has calcium,
although you'd need to eat
18 cups of it to get
the 1300 miligrams
that you need per day.
Tofu and almonds, so you
need to eat about five cups
of each of those to
get the 1300 miligrams.
So calcium is widely
distributed through
the diet, but in
fairly small amounts.
How many glasses of
milk in a day is too much?
I'd say over four cups
would be overdoing it.
Thank you so much
for telling me more
about the science behind
the new food guide.
Thanks for having me.
[music]
 So what if I told you
that Canada no longer
recommends milk and juice
and now the suggested
beverage of
choice is water?
What would your
reaction be to that?
That makes sense because
juice is unhealthy,
and I don't really
understand what's wrong
with milk, but juice
definitely should be
off the charts.
Well there's water,
probably the best sort of
beverage you can have,
because it doesn't have
any fat, doesn't
have any sugar,
it's just water.
What if you had to eat
15 cups of broccoli
to get your daily
amount of calcium?
Um...I would say that it
might be a lot easier
to drink milk, but I
don't mind broccoli,
so I'll eat it.
Now, what would you say if
I told you that a glass of juice
and a glass of pop
had the same amount of sugar?
Wow, I never knew
that, actually.
i feel like it's very
unhealthy and we were lied to
that it was a healthy
drink to be able to bring
to school and all those
things that people would
drink for the healthiness,
but it's actually not.
CBC Kids News wants
to know what you think.
How will Canada's
new food guide
change the way that you eat?
Are you ready to say
goodbye to juice
and stop drinking
quite so much milk?
Email us at
cbckidsnews@cbc.ca.
For CBC Kids News, I'm
Alexia Sabau in Calgary.
