Ep 57 Selena De Vries Explains the New Food Guide
Let’s start the blog with the Show Notes for this episode:
This episode is a look at the new Canada’s Food Guide with Registered Dietitian Selena De Vries. The new food guide is a dramatic change from the recommendations we have known for years. We have always been told to eat so many servings from different food groups. The new guide takes a different approach and Selena does a great job breaking that down for us.
Selena was a past guest on Episode 14 of the podcast discussing the challenges of losing weight and maintaining a healthy weight on a strict gluten free diet.
Selena has written about the new food guide on her website at –
Selena can be found online at – www.healthbean.ca
on Facebook at Healthbean Nutrition and on Instagram at celiac_dietitian
Sue’s Websites and Social Media –
Podcast https://acanadianceliacpodcast.libsyn.com
Podcast Blog – https://www.acanadianceliacblog.com
Facebook – @acanadianceliacpodcast
Twitter – CeliacPodcastCA
Email – acdnceliacpodcast@gmail.com
Baking Website – https://www.suesglutenfreebaking.com
Instagram – @suesgfbaking
YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUVGfpD4eJwwSc_YjkGagza06yYe3ApzL
(search Sues Gluten Free Baking)
Email – sue@suesglutenfreebaking.com
Other Podcast – Gluten Free Weigh In – https://glutenfreeweighin.libsyn.com
My Thoughts –
A year ago, I thought I knew almost everything there was to know about living a healthy gluten free lifestyle with celiac disease. I was wrong. I’ve learned so much this past year producing the podcast and talking with different experts and celiacs from across the country.
After speaking with Selena DeVries on Episode 14 of the podcast, I was inspired to develop another podcast that looked at how individuals are coping with losing weight and maintaining it on a gluten free diet. I have always been overweight, and it took weight-loss surgery to get me on track. I started the second podcast in the summer of 2018.
When I look at what I’ve learned about the gluten free diet, from both A Canadian Celiac Podcast and the Gluten Free Weigh In podcast, I can safely say that using the structure of a gluten free diet to eat healthy, eat more single ingredient foods, eat mindfully and enjoy food have been the common themes I’ve spoken about in both podcasts.
Fast forward to January 2019 and the release of Canada’s New Food Guide. It took me a while to connect the dots. The mindful eating of mostly unprocessed foods; efforts to make more food at home; and enjoy it more were there in the new recommendations. I’m doing something right on my gluten free journey, and I have to credit much of my enlightenment to the various people I’ve spoken with for research and interviews over the past year. I love when a plan comes together.