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Do you have dessert every day?
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Do you have dessert every day?
Pies cakes and cookies area leading source of the 100 to 125. pounds of sugar that the average American consumes each year. That. adds up to 220,000 nutritionally poor calories - enough to make 62 pounds of body fat per person. You need not cut out all these calories. But instead of eating a slice of cake or pie that contain 200 to 500 calories reach for a piece of fruit. Half a cantaloupe, for example has 50 calories and a cup of strawberries has only 45 along with a whole day’s worth of vitamin C. Or you can end a meal with a yogurt berry parfait four ounces of plain low fat yogurt has 72 calories). If you are an ice cream lover, try switching to water based sherbet or sorbet both
have about half the fat.
USRDA percentages are general guidelines determined by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. With Cereal Skim Milk Although the percentages of the daily al - ante of vitamins and minerals In each seiw Ing may take up the largest portion of the Well, equally Important Is the amount of - and added sodium and sugar In the cares!. Not all cereal boxes list these amounts, however Nutritional Content of each serving. To calculate the percentage of fat calories, multiply fat grams by 9 and divide by the total number of calories. For example, a dry serving of this cereal gets 8 percent of Its calories from fat: I times 9 equals 9. Dividing 9 by 110 yields .M. or 8 percent. Crunchy B with Raisins IMPROVED A product can be described as improved for up to six months after it has been changeb. ALL NATURAL Net weight 12 oz.
(340 grams).
Ingredients are listed in order of weight. cereal has added salt, which you shou1d try to avoid. This label also lists sugar and con syrup separately, even though these both represent the empty calories of simple sugar• And, while these two ingredients are listed second and fourth, together they may represent the primary Ingredient.
Look for cereals with more than 2 grams of dietary fiber per ounce. This cereal, with 4 grams resins 15-ounce serving, has a substantial amount. Moreover, the sucrose per serving Is high. You should eat cereals that have 2 grams, or less of added, sugar per ounce.
Even though a food Is labeled "natural," it Breakfast cereals can add a lot of unnecessary salt to your diet. The 220 mg of sod km, in this cereal Is fairly high. You should try to eat cereals that supply less than = mg of sodium per serving. Nutrition labels must appear on products that are enriched or that have health claims made about them by the manufacturer.
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