Beyond Labels and Guidelines: The Future of Personalized Nutrition

We will see two new sources of nutrition information this year from the government, and one old one. As we gain more and more and more weight, we are starting to have more chronic diseases and are dying earlier but, will any of this help? Sadly, no.

First will be the FDA’s front-of-the-package nutrition icons. This is meant to make up for the fact that nutrition labels are on the back of packages and are complicated. They will reduce everything that is important down to added sugars, sodium and saturated fat. Of course, the original purpose behind the food labels back in the 1970s was, if manufacturers wanted to make a claim about the healthiness of their foods on the front of the package, FDA considered it to be misleading of all of the information wasn’t on the back. I suppose this will make their newly required information misleading.

Read the full piece on my Substack here.