Why do we do the food guide? I think the food guide is absolutely an essential undertaking, because more than anything else, people want to know what healthy eating means. We all talk about healthy eating. Oh, it's important for chronic disease prevention, it's important for healthy growth and development, it's important for health, but what does that mean? You need to be able to help a population understand what healthy eating means and what it looks like. If I want to follow a healthy pattern of eating, what does that mean? If you look over time,you'll see that the food guide changes, and it changes very much.
