Although nutrition is important and eating healthy foods is the key to improving your diet, there are some untold loopholes. On a blog I read online called Daily Spark a post was focusing on nutritional bars can cause unsuspected cavaties. You think while eating a Power Bar or Zone Perfect Bar, that you're doing something good for yourself, and then the next time you go to the dentist you have a cavity.
I did some research on loopholes in Nutrition and found that there are others that I think people should be wary about. A chocolate power bar has 20 grams of sugar, and a chocolate carmel cluster Zone Perfect bar has 14 grams of sugar. Although these are crucial when your recovering for a workout, the gooey bar gets stuck in your teeth and increases chances of cavities.
Another scary thing I came across in my readings were how misleading some food labels are. Such as an article from the Washington Post about Poptarts with a "made with real fruit" label on it, when it's really only made with three small pieces of fruit, the rest being sugar and chemicals. Thankfully I understand that a Poptart isn't what the food pyramid had in mind when it said you needed five servings of fruit and vegetables a day.
But it's clear that without reading the label, a mom would never know what she was feeding her 8 year old. Hopefully most mother's would't fall for all the propaganda.
The FDA thankfully is lowering the criteria for something "made with fruit" or "healthy" because the healthy products usually have high levels of sodium which isn't good in large doses. These changes in the system are important to keep the level of obesity down also. It stresses how important reading the serving sizes and labels are when deciding what to buy and what's healthy or not.
I did some research on loopholes in Nutrition and found that there are others that I think people should be wary about. A chocolate power bar has 20 grams of sugar, and a chocolate carmel cluster Zone Perfect bar has 14 grams of sugar. Although these are crucial when your recovering for a workout, the gooey bar gets stuck in your teeth and increases chances of cavities.
Another scary thing I came across in my readings were how misleading some food labels are. Such as an article from the Washington Post about Poptarts with a "made with real fruit" label on it, when it's really only made with three small pieces of fruit, the rest being sugar and chemicals. Thankfully I understand that a Poptart isn't what the food pyramid had in mind when it said you needed five servings of fruit and vegetables a day.
But it's clear that without reading the label, a mom would never know what she was feeding her 8 year old. Hopefully most mother's would't fall for all the propaganda.
The FDA thankfully is lowering the criteria for something "made with fruit" or "healthy" because the healthy products usually have high levels of sodium which isn't good in large doses. These changes in the system are important to keep the level of obesity down also. It stresses how important reading the serving sizes and labels are when deciding what to buy and what's healthy or not.
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