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5 tips to decode food labels

By Annastazia Camarena | April 7, 2013

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires food labels on most packaged food products and encourages food manufactures to make the labeling easier to understand with standard nutrition facts. While it may be easy for some nutritionists to fully understand...