Health Check symbol not all its cracked out to be

So I'm sure that all of you have seen it before that check mark on your grocery product that allows us to make healthier food choices when shopping. Is it really a healthier choice?? According to a special that aired last night on CBC news it turns out that heart and stroke foundation seems to be pulling the wool over our eyes when it comes to this so called healthier choice.  First thing that's wrong with the whole program is that not all foods are being taken into consideration when given the check. Only companies that pay to have their food given the seal of approval get a chance to bare this symbol.  So other companies that may have healthier options are not know to us because they are not paying into the system to be advertised in such a way. I don't feel that heart and stroke should be making money off of this and how accurate is it really when you are only looking at companies you have the big money to fork over to get more attention drawn to their products by the symbol.  It looks like just another marketing tool to draw more sales to certain food companies. 

When CBC took a look at other forms of food checks in the USA they found that under their rating system some companies wouldn't even receive a check at all for their products.   A certain company tested all products out of 100 and when for example macaroni and cheese would get our seal of approval under Canada's rating system they would only get 9/100. That's horrible and i don't think very highly of our health check system at all. Either we need to analyze our system a lot better and change it or get some new smarter dietitians not being bought off with money from these company's wanting the seal of approval.

In the end it pays to just look at the back of your products and check its sugar and sodium content and make the best health choice for you and your families. Because it seems like we are just getting the run around from heart and stroke who earned 2million last year alone from money given by companies wanting to bare the health check.