Changing Food Labels

Research shows that when such information is given, customers use it to limit the way they eat. This can consume an average loss of calories than they typically did before labeling. This trend poses increased risk, not just in terms of calories, but in terms of unhealthful ingredients such as fat and sodium. According to the passage, "the U.S. government agrees that restaurant meals should be labeled. It is part of the Affordable Care Act of 2010, which requires that standard menu items include information on nutrition 1". This poses that fast food places and restaurants should in fact label information, not only for ones own health but it is required.

Should the government waste money on something that millions of people will ignore everyday? I believe that every restaurant should have a choice to whether they would like to label their menu or not. Labeling menus should not be a requirement for restaurants as of multiple reasons.

If you were to go to a restaurant, you would want to know what the nutritional values of the food were, would you not? The labels you see on bags of potato chips or a drink are called nutritional labels (also known as food labels), which show you how much calories, proteins, fats, or a lot more that the item has. In fact, the government made it illegal to make products to sell at stores without the nutritional label. Did you know that restaurants are not required by law to have a label on any of their products? The government needs to make a law to make restaurants put the nutritional values on their foods.

The Labeling and Education Act of 1990 was the last major government action involving nutrition labeling, which did not take effect until 1994. This action required that serving size and nutrition labeling to be clearly displayed on packaged foods that were being sold at the grocery stores. Restaurant and other ready-to-eat food were exempted from this new law. But in 2014, twenty years after this action went into effect; the FDA released a proposed rule to renew the nutrition-facts label, which required packaged foods to include the amount of sugar, and to increase the size of the calorie label font, making it easier for consumers to read the labels.

In my opinion, I think labels on sugary drinks is a good idea because it can save people's lives. I can understand why people don't want to have labels on soda. They want to make their own decisions. They don't want a list of things that can happen to them if they drink it. However, it can also save your life by looking at the nutritional fact.

While it is possible that the decisions of many diners may not be influenced by menu-labeling, and while there is financial cost associated with the implementation of nutrition analysis and menu-labeling, I believe the availability of information will empower consumers to make healthier decisions when eating out and I believe that the improvement in health of even a minority is worth the effort.

However, the one area of healthy living promotion is lacking and that is food information. The United States must change their source of food information; the food label must be changed. Currently the food label is inaccurate, loose in regulations, and hard to read. By changing the food label to an easier, clearer, and more accessible source of information, then the American public will have easier access to information. Furthermore, the American public will have an easier time choosing healthier options towards food.

What i mean by this is people with healthy habits look for these labelings to be on their menus because it helps the se how much calories or fats are in a certain food and it's not just people with healthy habits that do this it is everybody a lot of people look for labeling on their menus of their foods. If you read paragraph three of food labeling if states “this trend poses increased risks for all of us, not just in terms of calories, but in terms of unhealthful ingredients such as fat and sodium. Armed With relevant information, consumers can address this risk and be better for

According to the text in “Label the Meals”, when labels are available, research shows that about one-quarter of customers use it to limit what they decide to eat. This helps customers be more healthy and that is our purpose with labels. These customers that limit what they decide to eat usually end up eating 400 less calories than to when there are no labels. This is needed because over the past 30 years, Americans have nearly doubled the calories they recieve away from home. This is a risk for all of us and can promote sodium and fat consumption.

Modern processed foods are packaged in ways that are designed to sell. With many people seeking healthy and nutritious food options, it makes sense that companies would want to portray their products as such. In the article “Front-of-Package Food Labels”, Marion Nestle and David S. Ludwig discuss why vague and unproven front-of-package labels should not be allowed on processed food packages.

Over 65% of people in the united states are considered obese. It’s not because they want to be, it’s because they don't care what is in what they eat. They like what they are drinking/eating so it doesn’t matter what's in it or what it will do to them, they will not stop if they like what they are consuming. Just because there is a label on an aluminum can a little bigger than before so it's “more visible” then i would like to see how much improvement it makes in these types of diseases. Just because a company puts the label on are people like you and i really going to pay any attention? These warning labels will do absolutely nothing. Every single soda has the warning labels, so does it really matters so much to

The public demanded that the FDA re-work their food label, making it easier to read and comprehend. In 2014, Alexandra Sifferlin, from Time Magazine, published an article referring to how the FDA could improve and redesign their food label, stating that the labels could add “Realistic serving sizes, bolder calories, sugar breakdown, understandable measurements, and front of package placement.” Once this article got into the hand of the public, many people began urging the Food and Drug Administration to change their label. Two years later in 2016, the FDA had designed a new formatting for their food labels, adding “Serving size in a larger bolder type, updated serving sizes, calories in a larger type, updated daily values, a new line for added sugars, actual amounts as well as % daily value of nutrients” (Coming to a shelf near you: The new Nutrition Facts labels). However, the FDA did not put the label on the front of the packaging. This is because if the food label is on the back of packaging, it gave corporations the room to advertise their product on the front of the packaging. Also, many people would not be enticed to buy a product if the first thing they see is a chart. With these improvements, it is obvious that the FDA is considerate of the public, however some people still have an

The FDA should use Canada's daily value label for sugar, in order to make it easier for people to comprehend sugar intake. Since some people do not know how to

In the article “Added Sugars Labeling Proposal” by Bruce Silverglade, I agree with the author that “The FDA should take Health Canada's lead and ditch its added sugars labeling proposal” (Silverglade, 2015). Moreover, I agree with Silverglade that the FDA should take Canada's approach towards labeling sugars because Canada's proposal for enhancing sugar labels sounds a lot easier for most people to read and comprehend. Furthermore, not only is Canada's label easier to understand, but it also gives people a better understanding of how much sugar they should be consuming, as well as the types of sugars included. Not only is Canada's proposal simpler to understand, but when Canadian consumers were presented with both Canada's and the U.S. proposal,

I think that they should have labels of teaspoons of sugar. The outrage over the idea reveals the extent that extra sugar is added to even the most unlikely foods. It also shows how concerned manufacturers are about consumers finding out. The big companies are scare to show their buyers how much sugar they put in there products.