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<h1>Advice on Choosing Health Food and Healthy Foods and Reading Nutrition Labels</h1>

Health food doesn't need a definition, does it? We all know what
health food is it's yogurt and granola, whole-grain cereal and
organically grown vegetables and fruit. It's 100% natural, no
preservatives or dyes, unadulterated, pure. When you put all that
together, you should have healthy food, yet all too often, what's
marketed as health food these days barely classifies as food, let
alone health food.
 
 Take a look at one of our favorite health food choices -
yogurt. It hit supermarket shelves in the early seventies, though
it had been available before that in health food stores and
restaurants. Real yogurt has two ingredients: milk (whole, skim or
low fat) and live yogurt cultures. That's health food - calcium,
vitamin D, vitamin A, protein. Next time you're at the supermarket,
take a look at the dairy case. You'll find row after row of
hyper-sweetened brightly colored rainbow swirled and
candy-sprinkled yogurt packaged in ways that appeal to our littlest
consumers - children. Millions of parents buy the enticing
packages, secure that because it's yogurt, they're buying food
that's healthy for their children.
 
 One look at the label, though, and it's clear that these
kiddy yogurts (as well as most of the yogurt that's marketed to
adults) are a far cry from heath food. Some of the most popular
yogurts for children contain anywhere from 3 to 10 added teaspoons
of sugar. Considering how many teaspoons of yogurt are in a single
serving, you might as well hand your child the sugar bowl. In
addition, most yogurts include "natural" ingredients that have
little to do with health food. Ingredients like pectin (to thicken
yogurt), carrageenan (a seafood extract that gives some yogurts
their body, and annatto (for color) add little nutritionally to
yogurt. They're in the mix to serve one main purpose: to help
yogurt survive its trip from the factory to your table.
 
 You'll find the same situation with other foods that
originally made their debut as health foods in the seventies.
Granola has become granola bars with chocolate chips and gooey
caramel. Whole wheat flour is bleached and denuded of its flavorful
kernels. Sunflower seeds are roasted in oil and salted. Even brown
rice comes in the instant variety.
 
 Healthy food not health food
 The secret to feeding your family (and yourself) a healthful
diet of healthy food is to read the labels. The United States Food
&amp; Drug Administration has laid out strict guidelines for
nutritional labeling of all food products. The nutrition label will
tell you all you need to know to choose real health foods. Some
things to keep in mind when reading nutrition labels for health
foods:
 
 * In the ingredient's portion of the nutrition label,
ingredients are listed in order by amount. The ingredient that's
listed first is the main ingredient, followed by the next largest
amount, etc.
 * The nutrition facts label must list each of the required
nutrients even if the food provides 0% of the recommended daily
value.
 * The nutrition facts label must list what portion of the
food's calories is derived from fat, from sugar, from protein and
from carbohydrates. It will also break down the fat into saturated
and unsaturated fat.
 
 Reading labels on everything you feed your family is the best
way to tell whether a food is really a health food - or just
masquerading as one.

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