Healthy Mum, Happy Baby

So the whole time I was writing the book Health Canada was promising to update their Food Guide, it was coming out in the fall of 2006. Well, that’s exactly when the book was due, so I was hoping it would come out before my deadline so I could include up-to-date recommendations. Don’t quote me but I believe the previous recommendations were from 1992 and there’s been a lot of knowledge under the bridge since then. Anyhow, the long and short of it was I had to use the old guidelines if I actually wanted to meet my oft delayed publication date (you try writing a cookbook when you have morning sickeness and a toddler and getting it in on time!). So here’s a link to the updated info (which includes more specific recommendations for pregnant and breastfeeding women): Canada’s Food Guide to Health Eating

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