This is the year we can all look to Brazil’s Food Guide for tips on how to consider what we eat in a new light.

The holiday and feasting season in December is the hardest time of the year to be counting calories on a diet. January is a different story as many of us turn to food as a source of our resolutions. This January is probably the easiest time to try out Brazil’s bold dietary guidelines, issued this year and recently made available in English.

Brazil is best known in the food and health worlds for its Zero Hunger program, launched in 2003 in what was then known as the most unequal country in the world. The country is already well past the UN millennial goal for 2015 of cutting extreme hunger and poverty in half. Now they’re refocusing on the need to have a good time enjoying…