Importance Of Food Labels By The International Food Information Council

Food labels play an important role in a balanced diet. Too often people buy foods that may seem nutritious when the label on the food actually reveals otherwise. Understanding what each part of the food label means is essential in eating a well-balanced diet and managing weight.

Diabetes WA (2009), state that diabetes is a serious health condition for which there is no cure. It occurs when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin, when the body cannot effectively use the insulin it produces. Assigning a type of diabetes to an individual often depends on the circumstances present at the time of diagnosis, and many diabetic individuals do not easily fit into a single class (American Diabetes Association”, 2011).

According to Meng, Chunyan, Xiaosheng, Xiangren (2018), diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease caused by inherited and/or acquired deficiency in production of insulin by the pancreas or by the ineffectiveness of the insulin produced. The first WHO Global report on diabetes suggested that the most-to-date number of adults living with diabetes is 422 million, which has almost quadrupled since 1980. This dramatic rise is largely due to the prevalence of type 2 diabetes and the factors driving it include overweight and obesity (para. 1).

The number of people who are getting affected by diabetes is increasing alarmingly. Perhaps, only by imparting knowledge and education among people, this trend can be arrested. The problem with diabetes is that it can lead to many other terrible health complications like heart ailments, kidney problems, obesity and so on.

The article “Nutrition labels getting a makeover” is related in Chapter 24 Section 2 Food Label. This article was written by Jacque Wilson and published in 2014.

The information used on food labeling or in advertisements by law, must be true, and not misinforming. Ingredient lists must exactly reflect the amount of a nutrient present in a food (General Principles for Labelling and Advertising, 2016). Unfortunately labeling and advertisement is not always represented in the correct way. According to Koç, Summer & Winson (2016) state that vague and misleading claims are not expectations in the world of food labels, and they are frequently used to attract customers to produces about which they really know nothing. The Food and Drugs Act forbids food labels or advertisements are false (General Principles for Labelling and Advertising, 2016). According to General Principles for Labelling and Advertising (2016) Canadian laws also prohibit misleading, or deceptive labeling. It requires food labels to obey with the guidelines. Instead of holding the industrial food system to account, labels are tools of the production (Ko et al., 2016). In order to achieve a healthy lifestyle, individuals purchasing the food must be provided with accurate labeling and advertisement. This paper will discuss the effects that misleading food labeling and advertising has on individuals, as well as ways to avoid these deceptions.

Diabetes is a disease rapidly increasing throughout the world today, and it is often referred to as the world’s modern epidemic. According to The World Health Organization (WHO) there were 171 million people suffering from diabetes worldwide in 2000. They are expecting this number to be doubled by year 2050 with 366 million diagnosed people. The organization’s most recent “calculations indicate that worldwide almost 3 million deaths per year are attributable to diabetes” (World Health Organization). It is clear that diabetes is a huge problem in the world, and a research called “The burden of Mortality Attributable to Diabetes: Realistic estimates for the year 2000”

There once was a time where words like "light" and "low-fat" on food packages that had no nutritional meaning. As a result, shoppers were often led to believe they were buying products that were more helpful than they really were. Nutrition panels on labels were also confusing and hard to read. But the Australia New Zealand Authority (ANZFA) changed all that. In March 2001 the ANZFA defined new standardized terms that appear on food labels such as "low-fat", "reduced" and "lean" to control how food manufacturers could put their facts that are relevant to most of our dietary needs. This meaning that food labeling helps consumers to make the best possible food choice.

Nutrition labelling of foods is one of the strategies adopted that is aimed to providing a means for conveying information of the nutrient content on the label to assist consumers in adopting healthy dietary practices. Ministry of Health identified food labelling as “one of the important population-based approaches that can help consumers make healthy food choices by providing the necessary information about the food on the pack”(Indian MOH,2009).Describe the nutritional qualities of a food product factually and informatively it is the main objective of nutrition labelling . Although not the primary aim of nutrition labelling is nutrition education , it does supplement

Diabetes mellitus, or simply termed as diabetes, is one of the most common chronic diseases with a high prevalence round the globe. People who are diabetic suffer with a high rate of blood sugar due to which they are abstained from such several eatables which have a high or low quantity of glucose in them. There are two main causes for such a situation; one is when the pancreas becomes unable to produce a hormone named Insulin, which is responsible to control blood sugar and to move glucose from the food into body muscles, fats and other cells. In this case, as there is too little insulin produced to cope with the amount of glucose taken by a normal person, the blood sugar level rises and we say that the person suffers from diabetes. The second case is that in which the level of insulin produced is normal but the body cells do not absorb enough insulin to regulate the blood sugar level. The first case is commonly and medically termed as Type 1 diabetes and the second is known as Type 2 diabetes. In both cases, the disease is chronic and once occurred can never be cured permanently by medical treatments. Common symptoms include increased hunger and thirst, frequent urination and immediate loss of weight. The patients are advised to avoid glucose containing meals and food which even include fruits that have natural glucose in them. Animal or human insulin is now available in the market which is injected in the blood of the

Diabetes is a leading concern for today’s population. A disease caused my many factors; is a growing concern for people around the world. Anyone, who faces this evil or is in danger of facing it, due to a family history of this disease, or due to improper living habits, should take both care and precaution to tackle the complications of diabetes. The targeted population, if, bring change in their lifestyle can control both type 1 diabetes and prevent development of type 2 diabetes. Changes such as building healthy eating habits, losing excess weight and increasing the physical workout can bring about positive result in managing or preventing diabetes.

Standardization is key to knowing the information on labels is correct. A reliable set of food labeling standards can only come

Though many people believe that restaurants do not need to label the nutritional information on the menus, the food's nutritional information should be presented to the public. This could lead to a healthier nation and help many children live a healthy life.

The demand for labels on food products became a growing interest in the 1960s when consumers became apprehensive about processed foods and were curious about the entirety of the products they were consuming. Prior to this time period meals were typically grown, prepared, and consumed within the household; therefore, there was little to no necessary need for foods to contain any type of labeling. However, after processed foods gained popularity, an increase in the consumption of such products resulted in an increase in the demand for nutrient content information as well. In 1967 the government responded to this demand by enabling the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act, which required producers to label products with an identity statement, the name and location of the manufacture, as well as the net amount of contents.1 Overall, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) holds responsibility for providing consumers with the proper and correct information regarding a product’s ingredients and context of its nutrients as well for most food items.2 Today, the FDA gives approval for three different types of label claims that can be placed on products. Health claims, structure/function, and nutrient content claims are all FDA approved claims that can be displayed on food labels. The use and relationship that health, structure/function, and nutrient content, claims have in influencing consumer product choice are done so by highlighting the positive attributes a product contains.

Abstract: The Food and Drug Administration recognizes the importance of food labelling as a vehicle for dietary messages and, thus, enforces stringent guidelines to maintain the integrity of the food label. As food labels await another upgrade to make them more effective and easier to understand, the Food and Drug Administration considers what information will be most useful for consumers to make healthy choices. The causal relationship between food labels and actual amount of the content of food in the overall percentage; more research in this area is needed. The Food and Drug Administration acknowledges the severity of misinforming consumers for economic reasons of selling a food product. As a result a test will be conducted to actually get the actual amount of content in the food product using whole milk, Protein powder, and Soy milk.