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How to Lose Weight - Become a Label Reader
An effective tool for weight loss is as easy as reading the labels on the packages of foods that you eat. Manufacturers are required to provide nutritional information to consumers listing not only the calorie content, but serving size, sodium, vitamins and minerals in the serving sizes.
One drawback to labels is that many times foods are far from nutritious and even though there is a suggested serving size, the dieter should key their weight loss plan off of the food groups and servings recommended by the Official Food Pyramid. Getting our foods from these building blocks helps us individually construct our own healthy pyramid. While the dieter may eat one cupcake for a serving size, it rather difficult to truly define where this food fits in on the Food Pyramid. For a better Food Pyramid, it would do us well if the USDA required packages to list which building block the serving is referring to.
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