FDA Proposed Nutrition Label Changes

  • OK, going to rant here for a sec over the new “proposed nutrition label” changes. I’ve attached the link if you care to read or I can highlight the article for you:

    Changes proposed:

    • Make ‘serving sizes’ larger to reflect how much people really eat.
    • Increase the font size of serving and calories
    • Show actual amounts (mcg, mg, etc.) of vitamins and minerals along with moving the % daily value first in that equation.

     

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    All of this is to “reflect the latest scientific information, including the link between diet and chronic diseases, such as obesity and heart disease.

    This is where I call BS! Just because you made the serving size larger to reflect what the average american really eats and made the font size larger does NOT mean that all of a sudden the average American will now understand the connection between the soda they are drinking and their risk of diabeetus’ (say it in your best Wilford Brimley voice), or their increased risk of heart disease from the 290324795 products that line the middle isles of our grocery stores.

    Thunder_Punch_He_Man_part_1_by_KillershaI’m no politician, scientist, or doctor but maybe the $100mil dollars would be better spent on a campaign to better educate America about nutrition….just a thought. I mean in all reality McDonalds only spends $36mil a year on advertising and I think we all are WELL aware when “The McRib is BACK!” Seems like there has got to be a better way to protect the American public than to simply make the font-size on the calories bigger. I doubt the the average obese American is blaming the problem on poor eyesight or that the font was simply too small to read on the current labels.

    All this makes me want to lovingly thunderpunch the brains behind this and then sit down and give them a free nutrition consolation (this ones on the house).

    OK, rant over….
    Maybe I’m just hangry’, I don’t know, I ate earlier but the nutrition info was so small on what I was eating I couldn’t really read how many grams of protein, carbs and fats I was taking in…. 😉

    I’d love to hear your thoughts on this….

    http://clubindustry.com/nutrition/fda-proposes-changes-nutrition-labels


    March 5th, 2014 | Jeremy Reid | No Comments |

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