Low Fat/No Fat Are They Really Good For You?

Hello my fellow Yummys!! So I was asked is it really worth it to go for the low fat/no fat foods? The answer to that question is....... drum-roll please...... It depends. You really need to pay attention to the nutrition facts labels of the food you are eating. A lot of times what ends up happening is that people are not reading the nutrition facts labels. They see low fat or no fat and over indulge. Thinking its okay because it is low fat.
Lets take for example the delicacy of a pint of vanilla Haagen-Dazs and another brand low fat vanilla ice cream. With the Haagen Dazs you may know that it is high in fat so you only have one scoop. But with the other brand ice cream, you think since its low fat or no fat you can have five scoops! When you do that you just might end up eating more fat than with the regular ice cream.

Another thing is reading the Nutrition Labels correctly. Sometimes the label can be misleading. This happens often with small packages. For example you take a bottle of soda and it tells you that one serving contains 15 grams of sugar. The bottle contains 2.5 servings and you drink the whole bottle. Now you think that you only took in 15 grams of sugar when in reality you took 37.5 grams of sugar.

A lot of these companies are putting out these misleading labels in order to get people to buy their things.
So Buyer BEWARE!!! MAKE SURE YOU ARE READING THE LABELS AND COMPARING THE LOW FAT FOODS TO THE REGULAR ONES.

Thats all for today

YumNutrition 

BMI??? You're too fat!

Hey So the other day I participated in a health fair. I was tabling with the nutrition club. I had to help people measure their BMI using a special machine. The BMI is called Body Mass Index. The Body Mass Index is a measurement of your body fat based on your height and weight. This sounds like a good system. But it seems like when the BMI is used for athletes or muscular persons it tells them that they are overweight. I am not a fan of the BMI. I think it has WAY too many discrepancies to be used so solidly. Whats the point of having a tool for the general public when their are so many "hidden exceptions." A better system needs to replace the BMI. 
 What Do You Think???

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Where to start???

So many things I can do with this blog I don't know where in the world to start!!! I'll start with ME!!! LoL
Some of the many directions I might go with this blog is nutrition education, like letting you know what certain diseases and conditions are. I definitely want to do some recipes. I'm thinking about tips on how to shop and create menus. I'm really interested in women's health, since I am in fact a woman. I have iron deficiency anemia and I think i can gain a couple of pounds. So I might this blog out with my quest to get healthy weight gain and maintaining my iron levels with out iron supplements or multivitamins. Sometimes natural is better. So anyways. You'll hear back from me next week.
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