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Oct132010
New Nutrition Labels?
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GladdMD On Wednesday, October 13, 2010
GladdMD On Wednesday, October 13, 2010
The Institute for Medicine proposes new labels on food. New labels "should highlight only four things: calories, saturated fat, trans fat and sodium, the report says".
I think this is good step, but I would make some additional recommendations to food labelling:
- eliminate the loophole that allows the industry to claim a food is trans fat free while still having trans fat (as long as they have less than a certain amount per serving)
- list grams of fiber
-regular serving sizes to some standard and actually list both per serving and per box/bottle/package numbers. everyone drinks the whole bottle anyway, the ought to know what they are getting without doing math
-put any sweetener whatsoever in bold type
Any other ideas? Please share in comments....
http://tinyurl.com/2574l5t
I think this is good step, but I would make some additional recommendations to food labelling:
- eliminate the loophole that allows the industry to claim a food is trans fat free while still having trans fat (as long as they have less than a certain amount per serving)
- list grams of fiber
-regular serving sizes to some standard and actually list both per serving and per box/bottle/package numbers. everyone drinks the whole bottle anyway, the ought to know what they are getting without doing math
-put any sweetener whatsoever in bold type
Any other ideas? Please share in comments....
http://tinyurl.com/2574l5t
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