| Health food doesn't need a definition,
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| | to your table.
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| does it? We all know what health food is
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| it's yogurt and granola, whole-grain
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| | You'll find the same situation with
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| cereal and organically grown vegetables
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| | other foods that originally made their
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| and fruit. It's 100% natural, no
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| | debut as health foods in the seventies.
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| preservatives or dyes, unadulterated,
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| | Granola has become granola bars with
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| pure. When you put all that together, you
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| | chocolate chips and gooey caramel. Whole
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| should have healthy food, yet all too
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| | wheat flour is bleached and denuded of
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| often, what's marketed as health food
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| | its flavorful kernels. Sunflower seeds
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| these days barely classifies as food, let
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| | are roasted in oil and salted. Even brown
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| alone health food.
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| | rice comes in the instant variety.
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| Take a look at one of our favorite
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| | Healthy food not health food
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| health food choices - yogurt. It hit
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| | The secret to feeding your family (and
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| supermarket shelves in the early
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| | yourself) a healthful diet of healthy
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| seventies, though it had been available
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| | food is to read the labels. The United
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| before that in health food stores and
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| | States Food & Drug Administration has
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| restaurants. Real yogurt has two
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| | laid out strict guidelines for
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| ingredients: milk (whole, skim or low
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| | nutritional labeling of all food
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| fat) and live yogurt cultures. That's
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| | products. The nutrition label will tell
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| health food - calcium, vitamin D, vitamin
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| | you all you need to know to choose real
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| A, protein. Next time you're at the
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| | health foods. Some things to keep in mind
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| supermarket, take a look at the dairy
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| | when reading nutrition labels for health
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| case. You'll find row after row of
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| | foods:
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| hyper-sweetened brightly colored rainbow
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| swirled and candy-sprinkled yogurt
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| | * In the ingredient's portion of the
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| packaged in ways that appeal to our
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| | nutrition label, ingredients are listed
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| littlest consumers - children. Millions
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| | in order by amount. The ingredient that's
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| of parents buy the enticing packages,
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| | listed first is the main ingredient,
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| secure that because it's yogurt, they're
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| | followed by the next largest amount, etc.
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| buying food that's healthy for their
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| | * The nutrition facts label must list
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| children.
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| | each of the required nutrients even if
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| | the food provides 0% of the recommended
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| One look at the label, though, and it's
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| | daily value.
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| clear that these kiddy yogurts (as well
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| | * The nutrition facts label must list
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| as most of the yogurt that's marketed to
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| | what portion of the food's calories is
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| adults) are a far cry from heath food.
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| | derived from fat, from sugar, from
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| Some of the most popular yogurts for
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| | protein and from carbohydrates. It will
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| children contain anywhere from 3 to 10
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| | also break down the fat into saturated
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| added teaspoons of sugar. Considering how
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| | and unsaturated fat.
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| many teaspoons of yogurt are in a single
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| serving, you might as well hand your
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| | Reading labels on everything you feed
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| child the sugar bowl. In addition, most
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| | your family is the best way to tell
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| yogurts include "natural" ingredients
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| | whether a food is really a health food -
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| that have little to do with health food.
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| | or just masquerading as one.Chris
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| Ingredients like pectin (to thicken
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| | Robertson is an author of Majon
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| yogurt), carrageenan (a seafood extract
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| | International, one of the worlds MOST
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| that gives some yogurts their body, and
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| | popular internet marketing companies on
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| annatto (for color) add little
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| | the web.
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| nutritionally to yogurt. They're in the
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| | Visit this Food Website and Majon's Food
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| mix to serve one main purpose: to help
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| | directory.
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| yogurt survive its trip from the factory
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