{"id":4,"date":"2011-05-10T03:10:25","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T03:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berkeley.news21.com\/foodlabel\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2011-07-14T02:21:17","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T09:21:17","slug":"why-it-matters","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/berkeley.news21.com\/foodlabel\/why-it-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Why It Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"
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THIS IS CONFUSING<\/h3>\n

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THE CURRENT SITUATION<\/h3>\n

We all read these food labels, but we’re not always sure what they mean. Is 20 grams of sugar too much? How much is a gram of sugar anyway? How many grams of fat fit in a teaspoon? Should I care about folic acid more than riboflavin? Saturated fat more than cholesterol?<\/p>\n

We are confused about what and how to eat and so we’re eating too much of the wrong things. In fact, we’re eating too much of everything. Two-thirds of American adults are overweight or obese. The obesity rate among preschoolers has doubled since 1970. Type 2 diabetes has become an epidemic. We want to make it easier to choose healthy food.<\/p>\n

Last year at the Grocery Manufacturers Association conference Michelle Obama said, “We need clear, consistent, front-of-the-package, labels that give people the information they\u2019ve been asking for, in a format they understand.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

RESOURCES:<\/h3>\n

Here’s how the Food and Drug Administration explains the existing nutrition facts label<\/a>, which was created in 1990 by the Nutritional Labeling and Education Act<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read the Institute of Medicine’s Phase I report on front-of-packaging labels<\/a> and see what the Grocery Manufacturers Association proposed<\/a> earlier this year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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