Reading Nutrition Claims and Food Labels

Posted by Mike on February 25, 2008 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

Cathy Fitzgerald, registered dietitian with MFit, the University of Michigan Health System’s health promotion division, offers the following tips for reading nutrition claims and food labels:

Look for the claim, “May reduce the risk of heart disease.” This means that there is enough scientific evidence for the FDA to back up this claim.
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