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"Diet and Health News" at Low Carb Diet Support: "Ok, now that I have your attention ... This Friday, on 20/20, John will discuss nutrition labeling. From his newsletter: This Friday my "Give Me a Break" spotlights food labels that may mislead you. Many ...."

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Old 08-11-2004, 10:36 PM
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Ok, now that I have your attention ...

This Friday, on 20/20, John will discuss nutrition labeling. From his newsletter:

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This Friday my "Give Me a Break" spotlights food labels that may mislead you. Many food companies are calculating carbs, calories and salt not according to what's in the package, but what's in a "serving size." Trouble is, sometimes the serving sizes are ridiculously small (for pickles, one "serving" turned out to be 3/4ths of one fourth of a pickle). We have some other funny examples.
The 20/20 web site is here:

http://abcnews.go.com/Sections/2020/...tml?cmp=EM1388

So it's not totally low carb oriented, but who amongst us has not run into this labeling lunacy.
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I always try to figure out how much is considered a serving and eat only that--but yeah--3/4 of a spear of a dill pickle spear is an actual serving--I did figure that out! STUPIDITY--I will have to find out what station is running it here and watch that!
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