Nutrition Facts

[RobinN]

I just found a great website. Type in the foods that you usually eat and see their nutrition facts. It is quite illuminating, when you figure you should typically keep your Glycemic Index Load under 100.

Take a look a tell us how you are doing:

Nutrition Data

[RobinN]

[RobinN]

In the 21st century the food industry is creating and marketing unhealthy food in much the same way that tobacco companies manufactured and sold cigarettes in the 20th century.


But overeating doesn’t only affect people who are overweight. In fact, more than 70 million Americans have become conditioned to overeat, and it affects people of all different weights. Dr. David A. Kessler, the dynamic and controversial former head of the Food and Drug Administration who took on big tobacco in the 1990s, now takes on the food industry in “The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite” (Rodale, 2009). In his book, Kessler pulls back the curtain to reveal how the food industry and its scientists really operate.

Take a look at what is being consumed:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31832558...and_nutrition/