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How to dissect a food label for healthier living
Nowadays, reading a food label can be pretty confusing. Fat grams, calories from fat, sugar alcohols, net carbohydrates what does all this mean? When you first look at a food label, all of those numbers can be very puzzling, and in this article, I hope to clarify just exactly what is in a label.
How to dissect a food label
Nowadays, reading a food label can be pretty confusing. Fat grams, calories from fat, sugar alcohols, net carbohydrates what does all this mean? When you first look at a food label, all of those numbers can be very confusing, and in this article I hope to clarify just exactly what is in a label.
Experts want junk taken off food stamp menu
Four billion dollars. That's how much Americans spend in food stamp dollars each year to buy sugar-sweetened, carbonated soft drinks. In Maine, it translates to about $2 million a year. Imagine, ...
Nutrition still a problem, Vitamin A scheme to stay
A programme to administer Vitamin A to Indian children is unlikely to be scrapped despite new research advising against it. The health ministry and several doctors say it is needed to combat malnutrition, which affects over 20 percent of the country's population.
She takes paycut to be a midwife
WHEN Ms Tiang was just five years old, she remembers helping to change her baby sister's dirty nappies when their mother had to go to the market. As the eldest of four children, she was used to taking care of her younger siblings.
GUINEA: Climbing out of the donor funding gap
Source: IRIN More than two million Guineans do not have enough to eat, basic health services are a shambles and the country is in a fragile transition from decades of military rule, yet most aid donors do not see Guinea as an "emergency".
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