A Lesson in Label Reading! Choosing the healthiest foods!

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A Lesson in Label Reading! Choosing the healthiest foods!

Postby JeffN » Thu May 26, 2022 9:30 am

Lifestyle as Medicine Lecture with Jeff Novick, MS, RDN

A Lesson in Label Reading: How to Choose the Healthiest Foods

Tuesday, June 21, 2022, 7:30-9:00 pm EDT

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https://rochesterlifestylemedicine.org/ ... 2/6/21/lam


A Lesson in Label Reading
How to Choose the Healthiest Foods

Are you sure the “healthy” food you are buying is actually healthy? How do you know? Do you look at the numbers? Do you look for certain claims such as healthy, natural, organic, unprocessed, or plant-based?

Most consumers say they read labels to select healthy foods and limit excess calories, fat, sugar, and salt. Yet, research shows that the majority of products we buy are ultra-processed and high in calories, fat, sugar, and salt. This includes many plant-based products. All of this represents a huge disconnect between what we think is healthy and what really is. Have you been fooled?

In this talk, we will take a close look at the food label, learn how to identify what is most important, set some healthy guidelines, and learn a quick and easy system to evaluate products. Join us for this fun and informative talk, which contains generous servings of health-building information and nourishing fun. After this class, you won’t be fooled again!

“Jeff Novick's rendition of food labeling is unparalleled in its clarity and thoroughness. No one has a better insight into the folly of food advertising.” - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D.
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Re: A Lesson in Label Reading! Choosing the healthiest foods

Postby JeffN » Tue Jun 21, 2022 6:55 am

if you are interested, this is tonight

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Re: A Lesson in Label Reading! Choosing the healthiest foods

Postby JeffN » Thu Jun 23, 2022 4:53 am

The lecture is now up!

Lifestyle as Medicine Lecture: A Lesson in Label Reading: How to Choose the Healthiest Foods - Jeff Novick, MS, RDN

https://youtu.be/W9hBrj8D3YY

You can download the 3 handouts discussed in the lecture here
https://www.dropbox.com/home/Label%20Reading

During the Q&A a question on the Cedars Fat & Oil free hummus that i showed came up twice asking how it can be labeled as fat free with 0 grams of. Fat, when I said garbanzo beans are 14% fat.

To clarify..

The product has 25 calories, and lets assume all the calories come from the humus. 14% of 25 is 3.5 calories from fat. Divide by 9 and we get .39 grams of fat. Since that is less than .5, they can round down to "0" on the label.
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