I find the origin of Canada's food guide hilarious ! A man jumping off a tractor ? Implies a farm environment and I have yet to see a malnourished or obese farmer family - and been around a long time, experienced the whole gamut of food shortages during/post WW2 and grew up on a farm.

The problem with food guides is that they try too hard to simplify a complex topic - the multiplicity of nutrient input groups: carbohydrates, fats, proteins, minerals, vitamins and their complex subgroups. Never mind that calories in isolation are an energy metric unrelated to actual nutritional value. Try to reverse engineer a meal plan from nutrition labels .-)

Me ? I don't eat anything that needs a label to identify what it is, was, or might have been!

And beware of industry lobby groups !!!

And our current obesity crisis and all its negative health implications are based on simple consumer ignorance - the labels beyond comprehension no matter how well intentioned.