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The single biggest thing that you can do to improve your diet is to read the ingredients on the label. You are especially looking for fats, sugars, and salt.
The food industry adds as much as the above, as well as food coloring, to enhance the flavor so you'll buy their products. But you don't need these ingredients for food to taste good and they add calories and adversely affect your health.
We'll have lot's of Blogs on this subject.
The first thing to do is to always check the label and especially the serving size. If you just look at calories, fat, sodium and sugars alone you are missing an important piece of information. You have to multiply the serving size, if you eat more than one serving, times all of the other values on the label. Note that many packaged foods that may look to you like one serving are actually more than one serving.
From Federal Regulations, Title 21: Food and Drugs, 101.9 Nutrition labeling of food, (b)(1)
"The term serving or serving size means an amount of food customarily consumed per eating occasion by persons 4 years of age or older which is expressed in a common household measure that is appropriate to the food. When the food is specially formulated or processed for use by infants or by toddlers, a serving or serving size means an amount of food customarily consumed per eating occasion by infants up to 12 months of age or by children 1 through 3 years of age, respectively."
The above does not apply to products that are intended for weight control and are available only through a weight-control or weight-maintenance program, there are separate serving size rules for those.
The text of the code goes into far more detail, but we'll work with the above for now.
For packaged foods it may be quite easy to figure out how many servings you are eating based on the number of servings in the container. Or use measuring devices such as measuring cups and spoons. You'll probably find some of the fats, sugars, and salt numbers shocking.
Do try this at home with drinks, ketchup, mayonnaise, barbecue sauces, breakfast cereals, snacks, and your favorite foods.
The food industry adds as much as the above, as well as food coloring, to enhance the flavor so you'll buy their products. But you don't need these ingredients for food to taste good and they add calories and adversely affect your health.
We'll have lot's of Blogs on this subject.
The first thing to do is to always check the label and especially the serving size. If you just look at calories, fat, sodium and sugars alone you are missing an important piece of information. You have to multiply the serving size, if you eat more than one serving, times all of the other values on the label. Note that many packaged foods that may look to you like one serving are actually more than one serving.
From Federal Regulations, Title 21: Food and Drugs, 101.9 Nutrition labeling of food, (b)(1)
"The term serving or serving size means an amount of food customarily consumed per eating occasion by persons 4 years of age or older which is expressed in a common household measure that is appropriate to the food. When the food is specially formulated or processed for use by infants or by toddlers, a serving or serving size means an amount of food customarily consumed per eating occasion by infants up to 12 months of age or by children 1 through 3 years of age, respectively."
The above does not apply to products that are intended for weight control and are available only through a weight-control or weight-maintenance program, there are separate serving size rules for those.
The text of the code goes into far more detail, but we'll work with the above for now.
For packaged foods it may be quite easy to figure out how many servings you are eating based on the number of servings in the container. Or use measuring devices such as measuring cups and spoons. You'll probably find some of the fats, sugars, and salt numbers shocking.
Do try this at home with drinks, ketchup, mayonnaise, barbecue sauces, breakfast cereals, snacks, and your favorite foods.
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