Food Labeling - An Improvement, Not a Fix


Today, more people are becoming aware of the negative health affects sourced to the American fast food diet of pre-packaged foods, fake foods, processed foods, sub-standard foods, and chemically-laden foods. Doesn't sound too appetizing, does it? But that's what the majority of Americans eat day after day, and this is what we are raising our children on.

When public schools offer soda machines, fast food pizza stations, and choices of cheese fries smothered in fake cheese for school children to nourish their minds while at school every day, why should we wonder that disease and obesity are epidemic in America today?

Eating healthy is ultimately up to the individual, but having better food labels is one way consumers can quickly judge if the food on their plate is really helping them or harming them. Maybe Gov. Schwarzenegger will focus on the dangers of the artificial sweeteners next. One can only hope!

Dr. Janet Hull

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    Schwarzenegger Signs Bill Requiring Calorie Counts
    Washington Post, USA Today
    California became the first state to require restaurants to put calorie counts on their menus and indoor menu boards Tuesday when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill requiring chains with 20 or more locations to post the information by 2011. Starting in July, restaurants and drive-throughs will have to offer menus that provide information on the calories, saturated fat, carbohydrates and sodium in each item.

    In an analogy sure to resonate with the common tank commander, Schwarzenegger put the nation's obesity problem into perspective: "When I was in the Austrian army, I drove a tank that weighed 50 tons. Now multiply that by 3,500 -- that's as many pounds as California has gained" in the past decade, he said.

    USA Today's Bruce Horovitz , meanwhile, reports that Yum Brands -- parent company to Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut -- will announce today that it will post calorie information on the indoor menu boards nationwide at company-owned restaurants by Jan. 1, 2011, if not before.

    Fast-food critic Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, calls it a "groundbreaking announcement" and "fabulous news for health-conscious consumers."

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