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**FOOD LABELS** Do you know how to read a food label? Do you even know what it is? Well for starters its the white box usually on the side of the food packaging. Do you know how to count calories? Counting calories is important for a good diet. The recommended amount of calories that an average person should be eating is around 2,000 a day. if you look at most foods that honestly not a lot. When looking for calories also look at amounts or serving as most foods come on more than one serving. Servings with 40 calories to 99 are low calorie, 100 to 399 are medium and anything above 400 is high. Also look out for the nutrients list, keep looking to see how much of which ones are good or bad. Eat more Vitamin A or cakcium or iron. Eat less Saturated fat, Trans fat, cholesterol, and sodium. Thos are some of the main things to look out for on a food label.

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