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What Our Dietary Guidelines Should Be

Nutritional Therapy Successfully Used To Reverse MS MS is a chronic degenerative disease that until now, has left sufferers with little hope of a full recovery. New research is now showing that certain foods and nutrients are beneficial in reversing and preventing the development of this disease.

This FDA proposal merely continues the mistaken obsession over calories. They state these new regulations on labeling ready-to-eat foods for purchase at your local grocery store will "help consumers limit excess calorie intake and understand how the foods that they purchase at these establishments fit within their daily caloric and other nutritional needs."

It's not about the calories, people! Calories schmalories! A better idea is to have a new symbol for a teaspoon of sugar and for every 4g carbohydrates it gets one of those teaspoons plastered along the front of the packaging. Take the Red Velvet Cupcake sold at Ruby Tuesday for example. (http://www.calorieking.com/foods/calories-in-desserts-cupcake-red-velvet_f-ZmlkPTE4NTM4Mg.html) It has 285 calories, but that's not the whole story. Look at the carb counts mostly from the sugar and flour used in this product. 45 whopping grams of carbohydrates equivalent to OVER 11 TEASPOONS OF SUGAR!. Your body can't handle that kind of influx without enduring some metabolic consequences.

The FDA's suggestion to just put calorie information doesn't tell the whole story. Food quality and sugar/carbohydrate consumption are more important.

Supermarkets cry foul as FDA proposes new food labeling rule under ObamaCare If the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gets its way, a pending federal regulation could make your check-out at the grocery store a tad pricier.

10 Signs You're Gluten Intolerant More then 55 diseases have been linked to gluten, the protein found in wheat, rye, and barley. It’s estimated that 99% of the people who have either gluten intolerance or celiac disease are never diagnosed.