Grocery Store Shopping…Trust the "Smart Choices"?

Grocery shopping can be overwhelming with all the colors, products, labeling, marketing, and sales. Often, the very purpose of grocery shopping is completely lost…if we are trying to buy nourishment, shouldn’t nutrition be our number one priority? Concerned, The Center of Science in the Public Interest has called upon the FDA to develop a universal labeling system to help consumers healthfully navigate the grocery store. The problem is,the Smart Choices Program receives money from Kellogs and Kraft to be a part of their labeling process, while healthier options such as Grape-Nuts are left behind because they are not paying to be a part of the program. Until better methods of unbiased and honest labeling are widespread across the country, the best way to ensure proper nutrition is to turn the box around and read the ingredients. And do not go to the grocery store hungry.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/26/AR2009102602178.html?wpisrc=newsletter

-Caitlin O’Neill

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