OTHER WAYS TO MAKE HEALTHY FOOD CHOICES (PART 1)

If you don't like following meal plans, and prefer to choose from a wide variety of foods, a couple of expert groups have put together information that makes it all much simpler than it used to be. First, there's the new FDA Food Label. While it came under some criticism for not being simple enough, I think it's quite useful, and certainly will help protect you from false health claims (like "lite," and "low-fat," which now have regulated meanings). The best thing about the label is it gives you the total number of grams of fat (and saturated fat), cholesterol, fiber and sodium you should get in a day—and it gives you this information for both a 2000-calorie-a-day diet and a 2500-calorie-a-day diet (this is all at the bottom of the food label). Up top, the food label gives you the number of grams of fiber, fat and so on in one serving of this particular food. So all you need to do is match the information at the bottom of the label (a full-day's needs) with the information at the top of the label (this single food item's values).

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