Reading labels: Your best defense against food label mischief
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 at 21:30 I’m a label reader in a big way. I can spend a lot of time combing through cans of soup, weeding out anything with more than 25% sodium. I rarely bother with things claiming to be “Wheat!!” Wow. Wheat … highly processed, refined wheat.
Sigh. Not exactly the same thing as ‘Whole wheat’. And, I don’t need whole wheat when it’s been combined with High Fructose Corn Syrup ( can you spell Corn Lobby?) and all kinds of chemicals.
The food manufacturers are betting that you’re just too lazy, distracted or stupid to actually turn the package over and take a closer look.
I make a game out of proving them wrong, and my ability to keep a cancer recurrence at bay, energy levels up and my waistline in trim - all while being an enthusiastic cook and ‘foodie’ - shows it.
No draconian lettuce and clear soup diets around my house. Just real, whole, wholesome, organic food.
This is an interesting article:
