KEY 5 – LEARN HOW TO READ FOOD LABELS
In order for you to effectively
experiment in your day to day eating
and still choose nutritionally
excellent foods, you must
understand nutrition labels on
packaging. Quite often the
companies that manufacture different foods will claim on the
packaging that they are low fat or healthy, but the truth of
the matter is that there are hidden dangers in there for
people that are on different diets.
Being able to read the labels can, therefore, make a huge
difference in the potential success of somebody that is trying
to lose weight.
First, you must look at the serving size on the label because
the nutritional information that is listed on there will tend to
talk about a serving size that is smaller than the overall size
of the item you are looking at. This is important because a
number of companies will mention a portion of say 30g and
list the nutritional information for that amount, but they
know most people will take double so, in actual fact, it is then
nowhere near as healthy as you think.
What you need to do is to look at the serving size and then, if
you eat double, you must double those figures to see how
healthy it actually is.