Food Labels: Nutrition Facts not so factual

Does your healthy rely on the nutrition information posted on your food's labels? ABC News just aired a video after they did an independent study and found that the Nutrition Facts on many food labels were inaccurate, and NOT Factual.

You should be able to rely on "facts", but...


Why rely on numbers and labels? Just as they suggest at the end of the video, Try NOT to rely on packaged foods for your nutrition!

I am going to get more bold than that:

The health of most Americans will continue to decline if we do not become more dependent on fresh foods and consume fewer packaged foods.

Could you possibly be getting as much nutrition from your packaged, processed foods, that sit on the shelves for months (or years), as from the food in the Produce section, or better yet, from foods grown fresh in your own garden?!

Of course, we can't dump packaged foods overnight. So, how do we make the transition from packaged foods to fresh foods?

First, we must learn about nutrition. If you do not understand why an apple naturally has greater nutritional value than an apple-flavored Fruit Roller, or bottled apple juice, then you need Nutrition 101.

In order to eat nutritious foods, you need to understand that foods are most nutritious in their natural, raw, fresh forms. When a food becomes prepared, processed, packaged, and transformed, it is not the same food! Cherry-flavored anything will not offer the same nutrition (fiber, vitamins, etc.) as a ripe bing cherry fresh-picked from a tree and devoured within hours of picking.

Interesting to note about the foods sampled in their study: they showed examples of foods that are made by companies famous for killing Americans with unhealthy processing, packaging, and preservatives.
...If you eat alot of foods from Kraft (AKA Kraft'd), ConAgra (famous for their genetic modification of major food sources like corn), and Keebler (did ya ever meet a healthy elf?),
then your body is probably extemely nutritionally-deficient.

Avoid packaged foods, educate yourself, and Go Fresh!