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Looking for a guide to healthy eating? Search no further. The Canada Food Guide is the most comprehensive and credible source for nutrition-related information in Canada.

In order to maintain and build on that credibility, the Food Guide follows these principles:

• The Food Guide will promote a pattern of eating that will meet nutrition needs, promote health, and minimize the risk of nutrition-related chronic disease.
• Revisions to the Food Guide will be based on the most up-to-date research.
• The Food Guide will be linked to public health priorities and initiatives.
• The content of Food Guide will be easily understood and written for the public.
• Revisions to the Food Guide will be conducted in an open and transparent manner.