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Nutrition Facts – Label Helps You to Lose Weight

One of the most important skills you can master is being able to read a food label in order to figure out exactly what you are getting from your foods. Let’s look at the example and take the information from top to bottom:

Serving Size and Servings per Container:

Pay attention to this closely. Many people assume that small packages of cookies or crackers, or medium-sized beverage containers are single servings. But this may not be the case. An “official” serving of a beverage is 8 ounces, but many drinks are packaged in 16 oz. containers or larger. All the nutrition facts on the label are for one serving. If you drink a 16 oz. beverage, you will be drinking twice the number of calories on the nutrition facts panel, since you will be taking in two servings. You will need to double all the information on the label to determine exactly what you are taking in.

Calories, Fat, Carbohydrate and Protein:

As with all the other nutrients, these are the amounts per serving. In the example on the right, 1/2 cup of Chicken Noodle Soup has 60 calories. But if consume the whole package (2 servings), you will have taken in 120 calories. In addition to the total fat per serving, the label also tells you the calories from fat, so you can do a quick calculation in your head of what percentage of calories you are eating from fat. In the example, there are 15 calories from fat out of total of 60 calories. You can see right away that it is a quarter fat from fat. The label also tells you how much of the fat is saturated or trans fat.

“Total Carbohydrate” tells you again how much carbohydrate per serving. Keep in mind that this includes natural sources, such as the natural sugars in milk or fruit, so it is not always easy to tell from the line labeled “Sugars” where the sugar is coming from without looking at the ingredients list. If a cereal has little added sugar but contains raisins, the sugar content may look high, but it is just from the natural fruit sugar.

Look at the ingredients list for sugar: sugar, brown sugar, cane sugar, beet sugar, corn sugar, corn syrup solids, brown rice syrup, dextrose, fructose, fruit juice concentrate, high fructose corn syrup, honey, molasses and sucrose are all added sugars. Sometimes food manufacturers use a number of sweeteners in a product – each in small amounts – so the ingredients are “sprinkled” throughout the ingredients list, but taken together they can sometimes add up significantly.

A food with 5 grams or more of fiber per serving is a good source of fiber.

% Daily Value

Daily Values are standard values developed by the Food and Drug Administration for use on food labels. They are standards used to compare the amount of a nutrient in a food to the amount that is recommended per day, but is based on a 2000 calorie diet that may not apply to everyone. Even if you know that you do not require that many calories, you can sill look at these values to see if a particular food is high or low in a nutrient that you are interested in. In the example above, one serving of the soup provides 37% of sodium, which is quite a bit. But it also has 2% of the Daily Value for fat.

Here are some things to visualize when you are looking at a food label:

Every 5 grams of fat is a teaspoon of fat (or a pat of butter).

Every 4 grams of sugar is a teaspoon.

Diet Tips #9:
Take it one step at a time...
Diet is never easy...
BE HAPPY!!!

Fashion Tips #1:
Fashion trends are there to update us on the latest must haves but it's NOT a crime not to HAVE it in your closet... Make sure that you are comfortable and you look good... Clothes differ depending on body type... A bandage skirt/dress may look good on movie stars or models... A mullet may look good, but I'm telling I tried buying one, I tried the cute black mullet at Landmark....
I laughed hard...... I look really BIG...

Diet Tips #8:
Losing weight is not an overnight thing... Don't be too hard on yourself... Enjoy life!

Hi everyone!!!
I am back...
I will join the NatGeo Earth run tomorrow at the Fort...
My friends and I registered for 3k... Too bad 5k is already full...

Fashion is really tricky... The pictures I posted are just guide... People have this thing about trend, if you wanna follow what's in make sure that it fits you, you're comfortable and you look fab!!! Just be creative and most importantly... NEVER FORGET WHO YOU ARE and you'll never go wrong!!!

Diet tips #7
Depriving yourself of all the foods you love is the worst diet mistake you can make. This is setting yourself up for defeat. This doesn’t mean you have to go nuts and spend the day with a gallon of ice cream and a baked ham. Don’t go crazy with it, and the term “crazy” can go either way when it comes to diets. Don’t eat too much, using the excuse of “but this is my favorite food!” and don’t try to convince yourself that you can give it up entirely, either; when it’s something you love. Find a good middle ground for your diet. An extreme in either direction will shut your diet down. Try to find a balance between deprivation and pigging out.

Give yourself a break sometimes... Diet should be fun!!!