You don’t have to memorize the nutrient content of all your foods. You can thank nutrition facts labels for that. It isn’t necessary to recall the sodium content of your breakfast cereal off the top of your head every time you shop. But getting the…
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Dr. Yoni Freedhoff THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2014 For Sugary Cereal Maker Kellogg’s There’s No Such Thing as Sugar For those of you who still think the food industry is a helpful part of the solution to our modern day weight and nutrition woes I…
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by KRISTA SCOTT-DIXON Part 2 of our food label series examines the truthfulness, accuracy, and usefulness of label claims; in particular, front-of-package information. Separating fact from fiction There’s a lot of information on any given package. How do you know what’s useful and accurate……
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by KRISTA SCOTT-DIXON Food labels may help us make better decisions at the grocery store. This article looks at why we label food, what’s on those labels, and where label information comes from. Why label food? In theory, food labels help us make informed – and, ideally,…
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