Food Rules

I was interested to discover the origins of the - now controversial - Food Guide.
Canada's first Food Guide appeared in 1942, in a context of wartime food rationing. 

It was approved by Canada's Nutrition Council, which was comprised of food 
scientists, doctors, social workers.. It was meant to offer a practical embodiment 
of what eating for health should look like, given the knowledge about nutrition of 
the times, but also keeping in mind the nutritional problems experienced by various populations.

"Thus, the Official Food Rules were intended to be a focal point for a wartime 
nutrition program to improve the health of Canadians by maximizing nutrition 
in the context of food rationing and poverty."

And thus it begins: from its very inception, the  guide was building up health 
in populations perhaps malnourished, and certainly for all, intent on maximizing 
nutritional return. Here is what it looked like:

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Equally interesting, current hearings in France have to do with getting
clear on what  real food is (vs fake Food). Fish is food, sardines in oil is 
still food, fish sticks is fake food. The argument here is that the profitable 
practice of 'cracking' food into nutrients and then re-assembling them is not 
optimal for health...