Karen Foster, Prevent Disease
Waking Times
Consumers who simply glance at labels before they toss food into their grocery carts may not be eating what they think they are. The purpose of the food label is to help you make healthy choices so you can eliminate toxins and still eat the foods you enjoy. If you get in the habit of reading and understanding food labels, you are on your way to a healthy diet and good foundation in preventing disease. The problem is, they only tell half the story.
Food labels say how many calories a food contains. But what they don’t say is that how many calories you actually get out of your food depends on how highly processed it is.
“Companies are trying to reposition the same old line of processed foods as nutritious and healthy by portraying wholesome ingredients on the fronts of packages, but not really putting those ingredients in any significant quantities in the box,” Bruce Silverglade, Center for Science in the Public Interest’s (CSPI) director of legal affairs stated.
