Superfoods
Interesting article on Superfoods. Superfoods just mean foods that are good for you.
There is so much hype out there. High-fat foods are labelled low-carb. High-carb foods are labelled low-fat. There is no way around simple education.
Plus this:
"The report also found that the government often stands in the way of people learning the health-inducing benefits of some products.
For example, juice makers can claim that cranberry products help maintain urinary tract health, but they cannot say cranberry juice cocktail prevents urinary tract infections. That claim is legal in France.
The makers of the butter-like spread Take Control had clinical studies showing it lowers cholesterol. But until they got approval from the Food and Drug Administration, they couldn’t put it on the label.
“They had to say something like, ‘Maintains healthy levels of cholesterol,”’ said Fergus Clydesdale, a food science professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who headed the study.
“What does it mean? What’s a healthy level?” Clydesdale said. “That isn’t very good — matter of fact, it isn’t true. We knew the product lowered cholesterol.”
more...
http://www.eat-well-to-be-well.com/eat.htm
Originally Posted on 9/9/2005 8:33:49 AM
There is so much hype out there. High-fat foods are labelled low-carb. High-carb foods are labelled low-fat. There is no way around simple education.
Plus this:
"The report also found that the government often stands in the way of people learning the health-inducing benefits of some products.
For example, juice makers can claim that cranberry products help maintain urinary tract health, but they cannot say cranberry juice cocktail prevents urinary tract infections. That claim is legal in France.
The makers of the butter-like spread Take Control had clinical studies showing it lowers cholesterol. But until they got approval from the Food and Drug Administration, they couldn’t put it on the label.
“They had to say something like, ‘Maintains healthy levels of cholesterol,”’ said Fergus Clydesdale, a food science professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who headed the study.
“What does it mean? What’s a healthy level?” Clydesdale said. “That isn’t very good — matter of fact, it isn’t true. We knew the product lowered cholesterol.”
more...
http://www.eat-well-to-be-well.com/eat.htm
Originally Posted on 9/9/2005 8:33:49 AM
posted by Deb at
8:33 AM
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