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https://hermetabolism.org/nutrition/how-to-read-the-nutrition-facts-label/
Updated and Verified: September 08, 2024 (News page records significant changes.)
Accessed on September 08, 2024
Understanding her food intake is key to managing her metabolism safely and effectively. One great tool to understand food intake is the nutrition facts label.
However, few people understand the nutritional facts label aka food labels. Most people know that they do not understand the label - and often think that they, themselves, are uniquely ignorant: often assuming that everyone else understands the labels. Few do. Rather than belaboring the point, or even explaining the labels, following are a set of explanations from "leading sources." Pick a source or two that you trust. That should be enough to learn how to understand the nutrition facts label. And notice all these huge and famous entities that have a webpage explaining food labels. That is a big hint that - plenty - people have no idea how to read the labels. So don't feel weird about never having learned the labels.
Here in the USA, it is generally illegal and a bad idea for anyone but a jurisdiction-licensed physician to give medical advice, anyone but a jurisdiction-licensed attorney to give legal advice, anyone but a jurisdiction-licensed nutritionist or registered dietician to give metabolic advice, and so forth. This website's information is generally incomplete to predict how applying it may affect a given visitor - because the effects depend on the person's unique circumstances and characteristics.
So, here is the only medical, legal, and metabolic advice on this website: None of this website is individualized medical, legal, or metabolic advice. It is general information. You should not try to apply any of this information to your life, unless you know what you are doing. Generally, the governments of USA's jurisdictions (states and territories) declare two things through law:
Obviously, those standards are extremely conservative, if not heavy-handed. However, one should remember that many of those people in government who uphold such strict standards have seen the stuff of nightmares: predictable, preventable, terrible consequences when the least capable and least conscientious people make the worst decisions - whether medically, legally, nutritionally, or otherwise. So, it is not wildly unreasonable to promote - even to legally command - erring on the safe side. Still, various jurisdictions do provide some exceptions to those exceptionally strict standards under law.
Here in Minnesota (and in many other U.S. states and territories) a person can help you with certain aspects of your medical, legal, and metabolic status and circumstances - even when that person is not formally licensed by the jurisdiction. Minnesota, for example, allows various people besides licensed nutritionists and registered dieticians to give metabolic advice and guidance: certain Complementary and Alternative Health Care providers, which Minnesota allows under law. Minn. Stat. ยง 146A. Thus, one need not feel completely locked into the strict standards listed above (though jurisdictions do typically still hold alternative providers to certain basic standards under law). Instead, in the USA, one can discuss the information on this website, and receive guidance about it, from various experts - whether jurisdiction-licensed or not. Meanwhile, this thorough and smart-sounding notice and explanation should not tempt any visitor into having any extra trust for the information in this website. At most, as the saying goes: "trust but verify."
Sincerely,
Dr. R. Floyd Lindquist
Her Metabolism: Founder, Treasurer, Secretary, Lead Data Scientist, and Director of Communications and Research
PhD (Thanatology), PsyD (Psychology), DLP (Law and Policy), MPH (Nutrition & Epidemiology), MS (Nutrition), MA (Counseling)
floyd[at]hermetabolism[dot]org
Her Metabolism is a Minnesota Nonprofit (with 501c3 status pending)