Are we really “eating well with Canada’s food guide”?

BMC Public Health

Table 4 Dining out/Body Mass Index/fruit and vegetable consumption of Canadians

	Respondents who consulted Canada’s food guide in the past 6 months		Respondents who did not consult any source to learn about healthy eating
	%	Odds ratio (CI)	%
Eating out/Ordering out from restaurants/cafeterias
0–1 time per week^a	80.8	1.00	73.8
> 1 time per week	19.2	0.67** (0.50–0.89)	26.2
BMI class^b
Normal weight^a	44.8	1.00	46.6
Overweight	31.7	0.93 (0.69–1.27)	35.1
Obese	23.5	1.34 (0.98–1.82)	18.2
Fruit and vegetable consumption^c
< 5 servings/day	42.0	0.43*** (0.34–0.55)	64.0
5–10 servings/day^a	49.7	1.00	32.5
> 10 servings/day	8.3	1.52*** (0.21–0.31)	3.5

^aReference group
^bAccording to World Health Organization (WHO) classifications and based on self-reported height and weight
^cSelf-reported
*p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001

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