Friday, August 10, 2007

- Check The Serving Size

Nutrition labels! Thankfully, it’s hard to find food packaging that does not provide this useful and often shocking information to wise consumers. Kudos to you for consistently checking for how many grams of sugar, saturated fat, sodium and calories your food contains. Nothing is going to get past you, right? Wrong.

Did you know that a package of Ramen noodles contains eight grams of saturated fat? That little package actually contains two servings, and most folks will consume that entire package on their own. Typically your 20-ounce soda is not shared with anyone else. This means that you’re consuming twice as much sugar etc… than it says on the nutrition label (if it can even be called a nutrition label on a soda). A typical frozen chicken pot pie lands a solid 32 grams of fat in your belly. It, as well as many, many other food and beverages packaged as an individual serving is really meant for two or MORE.

Checking the serving size as well as the ingredients means you’re becoming a more educated food shopper and food consumer. You’re turning the tables on those large companies that produce a lot of food that in my opinion should not be considered food. The person that gains wisdom and a better understanding when it comes to food will loose weight, naturally. Get walking

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