Totally agree with crossfits guide to a lower carb diet, that meat/veggies/seeds should make up the bulk of your diet, and grains are more for livestock. Switching to low carb, lost weight and felt better.
Reading the guide [1] I can see that it recommends, for adult men, 7-10
servings of fruits and veg, 7-8 of grain products, 3-4 dairy and 3 of meat
_and alternatives_, which means vegetable sources of protein, particularly
beans and legumes, including peanutbutter. For adult women it's 7-8 servings,
6-7, 3-4 and 2, respectively.
That's a predominantly carb-based diet, especially counting the "alternatives"
to meat and the vegetables that include potatoes and sweet potatoes (the
"other vegetables" category in the guide.
You can see this also on the food guide's website [2] (and its wikipedia page)
where an image summarises the recommendations: a full plate; half is fruit and
veg (including sweet/ potatos); a quarter is carbs (black and white rice,
noodles, bread, red quinoa); and another is meat and alternatives, which
again, include beans, chickpeas, lentils, almonds, peanuts, tofu, walnuts and
some grains I can't quite identify.
So I don't know where you guys saw the low-carb diet. I particularly don't see any suggestion that grains are "for livestock".
Your link to in your [1] is the older version of the food guide (it has 2007 in the PDF file name) and is different from [2]. The food guide in your [2] specifically does not have servings and has a proportional plate instead [0].
eggs
lean meats and poultry
lean cuts of beef, pork and wild game
turkey
chicken
nuts and seeds
peanuts
almonds
cashews
nut butters
sunflower seeds
fish and shellfish
trout
shrimp
salmon
scallops
sardines
mackerel
lower fat dairy products
milk
yogurt
lower sodium cheeses
beans, peas and lentils
brown, green or red or other lentils
peas such as chickpeas and split peas
dried beans such as black beans and kidney beans
fortified soy beverages, tofu, soybeans and other soy products
So again, nuts and seeds, beans and legumes -not a low-carb diet by any means.
I would say it is lower than before, which is definitely an improvement. I'm not aware of a specific number of calories or kilojoules for a diet to be considered low-carb. I guess there is some ambiguity on my part on what the low in low-carb means: low in comparison to the other nutrients in the meal? low as a proportion of daily caloric intake?
It also seems that I'm not the only one who is confused [0].
Yes, that seems to be typical. There is no agreement on what "low-carb" even means. And yet, there are many people who are very vocal about the benefits of such diets.
I note also that there are no public bodies that recommend such diets- it's only private companies and individuals.
>> I would say it is lower than before, which is definitely an improvement.
I can't see that this is the case- at least not in comparing the 2019 with the 2007 guide.
[0] https://food-guide.canada.ca/en/
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada's_Food_Guide