Spanish research recently showed that people
who read food labels while they shop weigh 9 pounds less than those who don't scroll the nutritional information.
Parents
who read food labels will notice that sugar is listed second on the list of ingredients.
Not exact matches
These leading experts all share my serious concern about the dairy petition and so it was with some surprise that I
read a new blog post by a respected fellow
food blogger, Spoonfed,
who seems to downplay the issue on the theory that front
labels mean little and, at any rate, consumers should just focus on back -
label ingredient disclosures:
Dowd must be one of those people
who refuse to
read food labels and never comprehend that corn chips are high in sodium.
I don't know anyone
who has the time to
read the fine print on
food labels and scour the Nutrition Facts panel for everything we're dropping into our shopping carts.
Read labels and try to track your daily saturated fat grams until you get an idea of how much your typical
food choices contain; don't rely solely on the Percent Daily Values listed, since they're based on the diet of someone
who doesn't have high cholesterol and thus can eat slightly more saturated fat.
Jeff Novick
who works a lot with Dr Mcdougall, points out that if you
read the
label on packaged date sugar, it has 0's for any nutrition, perhaps the fresh
food is better.
Ginger shares, «I recently had a patient
who was taking biotin — I
read the ingredient
label and the first ingredient in the product was actually corn syrup followed by red
food dye.»
I was already somewhat familiar with
label reading for
food allergens, having a husband
who avoids gluten, casein and peanuts.
People
who are allergic to casein should
read food labels carefully, because the additive is used in some «non-dairy» and «vegetarian»
foods.
I have a couple of small cans of cat
food every week but from now on I will insist that the - woman -
who - feeds - me
reads the
labels.
It is correct that the pet
food label contains a wealth of information, but it can be very misleading to anyone
who has not
read up much on the topic - and to be honest, would you unless you have a reason?
My first and foremost advice to clients
who ask me how to pick out the best
food for their animal is
read the ingredient
label!
Read the
labels on pet
foods carefully and avoid those
who don't list realistic ingredients high on the list.
:
Reading Eagle: Eden Foods More on Corporate Ownership of Organic
Labels US Consumers Prefer «100 % Natural»
Food Label 98 % of Green -
Labeled Products are Actually Greenwashed Organic Watchdog Group Takes on Aurora Dairy, USDA
Who is Behind Your Green Snack?
Like so many people
who make a point to
read labels and know the sources of my
food, I became outraged.
Responses were dichotomized in analyses, with caregivers
who answered that they never
read the
food label compared with caregivers
who responded that they had previously made use of a
food label.