Dr. Andrew Samis is an assistant professor of surgery at Queen’s University in Kingston and a member of a group called Canadian Clinicians for Therapeutic Nutrition (CCTN). He thinks the Canada Food Guide is a load of baloney. Samis told CTV Thursday he takes issue with the guide’s recommendation that meat, eggs and dairy should make up a smaller portion of the typical Canadian’s diet than previous versions of the guide had suggested. He says there is no reason for such advice and the clinicians body suggests it’s bad for you. CCTN declares online that the country is “in the midst of a staggering nutritional disease epidemic. We have record numbers of people with diabetes, obesity, fatty liver, metabolic syndrome and other dietary diseases, mostly since we started telling Canadians to eat less fat and more carbohydrates. High carbohydrate filler foods such as refined starch and sugar are pushed as the foundation of the diet. For most people, these mostly empty filler foods add calories with minimal nutrition. Although this would probably come as a surprise to most Canadians, we now know that the current low-fat guidelines were never supported by evidence.”
