Archive for March, 2009
How to Read a Nutrition Label, Part 4
The fine print: Ingredients list. All the ingredients in food are listed in order of how much is contained by weight. The first few ingredients make up most of the product. It is useful to look at the ingredients list in certain situations: If you are looking for a healthy whole-grain bread or cereal, make [...]
How to Read a Nutrition Label, Part 3
Happy Friday everybody! I’m currently out to sea on the Mayercraft Carrier 2. Check out my blogs for the cruise by reading the Sixthman Blog. For those of you still plugging away on how to read a nutrition label, here’s the little stuff. Sure it’s tiny, but it’s still damn important, so pay attention! Micronutrients [...]
How to Read a Nutrition Label, Part 2
What is %DV? This is the “percent daily value,” or the % of the total amount per day that one should consume for each nutrient. For some nutrients (like dietary fiber and potassium), the DV is the minimum amount you should consumer per day. For most other nutrients (fats, sodium, and cholesterol) the DV is [...]
How to Read a Nutrition Label, Part 1
I want to preface this blog by saying the majority of this has been written by my good friend Ali, a med-student who also happens to be a health and fitness nut. She knows that the nation’s health problems (and issues with obesity) will cause all kinds of problems years from now in our hospitals [...]
Why Today’s Post is Terrible.
See this cat? Yeah, it might look cute and cuddly, maybe even harmless. If you think any of these things, you’re an idiot-head banana pants. Frisby the Cat could possibly be pure evil. Either that, or she’s just too dumb to know any better (right now, she trying to sit on my arms as I’m [...]
