Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
I want to thank all the witnesses for being here today. I'll let you know that I'm one of the those guys who like to eat a lot. I like to eat a lot of different things. I'm thinking about my Christmas holidays. I come from a multicultural family, and a lot of Canadians do. Some of the foods I ate over the holiday I think some people would judge as being unhealthy foods. But if you look at the history of these diets, people who eat these diets can overall have a very healthy diet.
We hear of people trying to judge foods sometimes as being healthy foods or not healthy foods. There was an interesting article—I think it was the Ottawa Citizen or the Toronto Star--and they asked what can Canadians do? There are all these diets out there—the Ornish diet, the Zone diet. One of the comments they made was about one gentleman who had a diet of Twinkies and Doritos, I think, and he looked at caloric restriction. At the end, he lost weight, sure enough, and his cholesterol levels went down.
For me, there is a lot of confusion out there. If I could live on Twinkies and Doritos, maybe that's something I would look at.
Maybe I can ask the Sugar Institute. You did mention that you work with dietitians and nutritionists. With all the confusion out there, what are some of the recommendations you could make so that Canadians could improve their eating habits?