Nutrition Is Vital to Good Health

Eating and Nutrition - Do you know if your eating habits provide you with the nutrition required for you to function at your best?

FDA regulations require nutrition information to appear on packaging for most prepared foods, such as breads, cereals, canned and frozen foods, snacks, desserts, and drinks. Nutrition labeling for raw produce (fruits and vegetables) and fish is voluntary. Many people have begun reading food labels to evaluate what ingredients and nutrients exist in some of the foods they purchase, but reading every label on every product while on a major grocery shopping run would take hours!

The safest thing most people can do is to understand the basics and guide children and loved ones to follow eating habits that will benefit them in the future.

People's lifetime eating habits are most often established during childhood. If junk food or foods of little to no nutritional value become a routine when young, it can do great harm to our children as they grow up. Many nutritionists are discovering that bad choices in eating are related to far more health problems than just obesity or the obvious diseases (such as scurvy) produced by serious vitamin deficiencies.

Nutrition Basics