The Importance of Reading Food Labels

The Importance of Reading Food Labels

It shows you some key nutrients that impact your health. You can use the label to support your personal dietary needs – look for foods that contain more of the nutrients you want to get more of and less of the nutrients you may want to limit. Nutrients to get less of: Saturated Fat, Sodium, and Added Sugars.

Aiming for a healthy diet isn't just about cutting down on calories or limiting your food intake. A very essential step towards a healthy diet and lifestyle also includes paying attention to the food labels before you pick up anything from the grocery store. It is important to know where your food comes from and what it contains. The labels on packaged foods give you all the information on nutrition contents that the foods have, which also makes it easier for you to compare between different brands before you buy them. Additionally, there are some really amazing benefits of reading food labels. 

Food labels provide information that's vital for your diet. 

The two key things that food labels offer in terms of information include ingredients as well as the nutrition content. The latter gives well-defined segregation of what amounts of calories, total fats, saturated fats, carbohydrates, proteins, and vitamins the food contains. This information is extremely crucial when you're planning to make some dietary changes with some additions and restrictions to your daily diet. It also helps you reject certain food items if you have an intolerance or allergy towards certain ingredients, such as dairy, nuts, etc.

It helps you plan your diet well if you are suffering from chronic conditions. 

With increasing cases of hypertension, diabetes, and other cardiovascular diseases, it's imperative to cut back on your salt and sugar intake. Reading labels while buying packaged foods helps you effortlessly cut back on these components without fail so that your health never has to suffer. Keep a watch on the 'total carbs' content as carbohydrates to ultimately turn into sugar during the digestion process.

Now that you know some of the key reasons you should be reading labels on packaged foods before adding them to your cart, make sure you do that on your next visit to the grocery store. If you need some expert assistance to plan your diet and lifestyle, I’m just a phone call away 251-949-2220 or visit my website www.lifewellnessforever.com and my email is cindy@drcindyross.com