How to Read Food Labels

Many people come to me and are very confused because they think they are on a low-fat diet but they still can't lose weight. The shocking truth here is that the people are usually getting 60-85% of their calories from fat. This is because labels can be very misleading. An example is a non-fat cooking spray such as PAM. The label on the spray says, "For non-fat cooking." When you use this with scrambled egg whites for example, you are actually adding something that is 100% fat. This is due to some major loopholes in the labeling laws.

Let me first tell you what the label says and then explain how it can be. The amount of calories says zero and so does the amount of calories from fat. That's pretty impressive until you look at the ingredients.

The first one, which means the one contained in the greatest abundance is corn oil. That is very strange because corn oil is a fat. This must be a fat-free fat. That is not the case. There is a labeling law that says if there is less than half of a gram in a serving of something than it can say there is zero grams. This is a trick. The serving on the spray says .2 grams.

Here are some tips to remember:
1. Look at the number of calories from fat in relation to the total calories.
2. Read the ingredients.
3. Check the serving size.

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