Thursday, July 31, 2014
"Food labels mislead shoppers into thinking they are eating well, study warns"
Food companies mastered the art of deceptive labeling long ago, and have successfully lobbied elected officials to protect that art...
Emma Hines recently wrote about this in the U.K. Daily Mail Health Section:
"Researchers found health-related buzzwords - such as ‘antioxidant,’ ‘gluten-free’ and ‘wholegrain’ - lull shoppers into thinking products labelled with these words are healthier than they actually are.
The ‘false sense of health’ - coupled with a failure to understand the information presented in nutrition fact panels on packaged food - may be contributing to the obesity epidemic, they say."
