Food Guide Facts: Background for Educators and Communicators

Fact Sheet List

1. Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating: Its Rationale
2. A Tour of Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating
3. Importance of Variety in Healthy Eating
4. A Closer Look at Fat
5. A Closer Look at Carbohydrates
6. A Closer Look at Other Foods
7. Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating Meets Individual Needs
8. Examples of How the Food Guide Meets Individual Needs
9. Making the Vitality Message Come Alive
10. Food Labels and the Food Guide
11. Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating with Canadian Foods

Canada has a new Food Guide, Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating, complete with a new name, a new look and a new approach to healthy eating!

For educators and communicators, the challenge will be to communicate this new information and advice to consumers with ease, accuracy and confidence.

That is where these fact sheets, Food Guide Facts come in! Food Guide Facts is a series of fact sheets specifically designed to help educators and communicators gain an in-depth understanding of the Food Guide. Each fact sheet will explore key concepts and features in more detail. Practical tips and real-life examples are included to help in the communication of the basic principles of healthy eating.

How to Use Food Guide Facts:

These fact sheets have been developed to be used individually or as a series. The fact sheets were also designed with several practical features to make them flexible and more affordable. For example, the fact sheets:

• have been bound with a perforated back for easy separation
• have room in the margin for hole punching so that they can be conveniently stored in a binder;
• can be easily and selectively reproduced; and
• can be selectively updated.

Food Guide Materials:

The following are available for your use:

• Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating... a tear sheet for consumers that provides a pattern for establishing healthy eating habits through the daily selection of foods.
• Using the Food Guide... a booklet for consumers that explains the basic concepts of the tear sheet more fully. Includes a pull-out section of Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating tear sheet.
• Food Guide Facts - Background for Educators and Communicators... a series of fact sheets that provides background information for nutrition professionals, health educators, home economists and others involved in promoting healthy eating.

Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating tear sheet, consumer booklet and the fact sheets for educators and communicators are available from provincial or local health departments or from: Publications, Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0K9, Tel. (613) 954-5995.