Recent News & Comments About nutrition labels
Heather Bauer, RD, CDN: What Food Labels Really Mean
For most, deciphering nutrition labels can be like reading hieroglyphics. It can be time-consuming and thankless. I'm committed to providing my readers as much accurate nutrition information as possible.
By Rose L. Thayer Killeen Daily Herald
Nutrition labels on foods are meant to clarify what nutrients and ingredients are in products, but sometimes decoding serving sizes, percentages and promotional labels on the package can be a little confusing.
NDP MPP Pushes For New Nutrition Labels At Large Restaurants
An NDP MPP says she wants large restaurant customers to know how much junk they're consuming. NDP health critic, France Gelinas, is tabling a private member's bill that would force large chain restaurants to display the calorie count and sodium level information of their items. Gelinas says the bill would apply to businesses that make more than $5 million in revenue and have at least five ...
Privacy labels aim to control prying eyes, personal data
A pair of entrepreneurs thinks labels on websites that outline information sharing rules could go a long way toward protecting user privacy on the Internet and improving business relationships...
Behind scenes, Health Canada experts clashed with minister's views on food labels
Health Canada's top nutrition experts are at odds over their minister's laissez-faire approach to company-sponsored nutrition labels on the front of food packages, internal records suggest.b
Okaloosa Extension highlights new USDA nutrition guidelines
Brenda Smith, Food and Nutrition program assistant at the University of Florida/IFAS Okaloosa County Extension office, minced no words while introducing the government’s new “My Plate” nutrition guidelines. The program replaces the My Pyramid...
Nutritious Nutella? All you need to know about the pitfalls of food labels
Science-ish ponders the health impact of nutrition content information
Sandwich labels misleading consumers
Tesco, Aldi, Caffe Nero and Greggs criticised by Which? for failing to print 'traffic-light labelling' on the front of packs
USDA promotes new food labels
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is now providing in-store nutrition information for food safety and inspection on ground meat and poultry and for the forty most popular cuts of meat and poultry.
Don't bother counting calories - it will keep you as slim as the French
The French adopt a shoulder-shrugging attitude to reading nutrition labels on food while Americans scrutinise the calorie content, a study from Université Laval in Canada has found.
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