Applying Canada's Dietary Guidelines

Applying Canada's Dietary Guidelines provides additional information to support health professionals and policy makers when they are:

• providing advice about how to move closer to recommendations in Canada's Dietary Guidelines
  • Dietary shifts people living in Canada can make for healthier eating
  • Advice on nutrition for different life stages
• developing policies or programs that help support nutrition adequacy
  • What nutritious foods to provide and how often
  • Advice on vitamin and mineral supplementation

Sections

• Dietary shifts people living in Canada can make for healthier eating
• Advice on nutrition for different life stages
• Advice on vitamin and mineral supplementation
• What nutritious foods to provide and how often
• Considerations for vegetarian diets
• Selecting nutritious foods with little to no added sodium and saturated fat, and little to no free sugars
• Examples of nutritious foods that provide iron, calcium or that contain mostly unsaturated fat
• Evidence base for Applying the Guidelines

Details and history

Created
May 3, 2022

Part of topic(s)
Food and nutrition

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