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The truth about food labels

by Neel

When you go to the supermarket, the first thing you do if you love junk food is load your trolley with the tastiest food on the shelves. But when you start reading food labels, it gets harder to buy everything you like.

Losing weight is like losing your credit card and having to pay straight from the wallet. It hurts. One way dieters can start that difficult journey is by learning how to read food labels. How many calories do you get from one box of cookies?What is the fat content? Is it too heavy on cholestorol and sodium? How many servings can you make(that makes you realize not to have it all in one go)? If you are a diabetic, checking on sugar content is important.

Read this link for food label literacy guidelines:

http://nutrition.about.com/library/bl_nutrition_label_1.htm

The problem is that none of these facts are foolproof. While some healthy foods are high on fiber content, they may have too much cholesterol content. Trans fat may be avoided but that doesn’t make the healthy food product all that healthy. The Guiding Stars system found by Hannaford tries to question the authenticity of healthy food labels by reinvestigating the food content of healthy foods.According to this system, products with healthy food labels have unnaturally high content of sodium and sugar.The food label may be your guide but there is more to it than meets the eye.

Read this story:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950CE2DD113FF935A35752C1A9609C8B63&sec=health&pagewanted=2

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Posted in General on November 16th, 2006

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