When I eat or drink something I would like to be able to believe the information on the nutrition label. However, I know that companies can alter what the label says to make their product more appealing. It is aggravating to know that I might be consuming something with much more fat than the label says and I would never know unless I checked it myself. I believe that companies should tell you exactly what is in their product and find others ways to promote it than tricking  their consumers. Companies also can miscalculate when creating these labels that is why it is important to double check their values if you really want to know what you are consuming.

I personally do not like the taste of foods containing artifical sweeteners or fat substitutes.  I don’t drink soda, but if I did I would hate diet drinks.  I mean if your going to be unhealthy you might as well go the full nine yards and get a cherry vanilla Dr. Pepper or something. 

I think the idea of only being submitted to low or no calorie foods or drinks is absolutely retarded.  Another common misconception of nutrition is that calories are always bad.  Everyone needs calories to live, that’s a fact.  The problem is that almost every American eats way too many calories everyday, much more than they are recommended.  The recommended calorie diet is 2000 calories per day, and that doesn’t factor in physical exercise.  Anyone consuming much more than 2000 without any physical exercise is pretty much asking to gain weight.  As a runner, I have to have large amounts of calories to burn during workouts, so for me, the foods i eat need to have lots of calories rather than few or none.

What people should be doing is paying attention to what they eat. Don’t use the excuse, “It’s diet food so I can eat all I want.”. People should just eat, be happy, and live healthy lives. We should stop trying to mess in affairs that we can not control the effects that it will have on the public, and ourselves. Who knows, where will scientist draw the boundary? Will we start to have diet fruit enhanced with artificial sugars, and have potatoes that have had there starch taken out and replaced with artificial additives? There is a reason that we have survived throughout time, we need all of the nutrition in food, fats, sugars, and starch. We need to draw the line on all of this genetic  and stop all the hormones going in the foods we eat or give to the animals we eat. How can we stop this? By you taking a stand against these companies and there products.

It is a good idea to eat healthier to lose weight but you can also eat healthier foods but eat the same amount of fat.  For example: you can eat one doughnut which has 12 grams of fat, or you can eat a five dollar foot long that has about the same amount with toppings added.  The point is that just because you eat something healthier, it doesn’t mean you are really “eating healthier”.  It is just the amount of food you eat that really counts.  You can eat more but it takes more excercise to balance it out (to kickstart metabolism and to burn calories).

I personally believe, that the switching between saturated and unsaturated fats doesn’t really matter.  In the long run, sure it healthier, but does it really offer results?  Will it really help those who pig out on fast food and say, “well its healthier because it has unsaturated fat.”  I think it just gives people another excuse for their eating habits, its fast food, its not healthy, AT ALL.  So lets be smart about this and eat the right amount of food, and choose the food you eat with common sense, and don’t “super-size” your fast food either… lets be smart.

(and no i didn’t talk about small amounts because im fun-sized)

I personally don’t really like the taste of diet drinks and food, but there are a lot of peple that can’t eat sugar and one of the way they find to still have a sweet taste in their food is with the artificial sweeteners.

 If it doesn’t bring any problems to us in a long time,  it can actually be a great advance and be really helpful to our lifes. And i’m pretty sure that even if it made a little injure to our life a lot of people would still consume it.  I just think that places that use artificial sweetener should have to tell their  clients about it and the artificial sweetener have datailed labels on the contend of this problems telling if they can harm you or not.