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Healthy Home Economist / Archives / Videos / How to Read Food Labels (plus video)

How to Read Food Labels (plus video)

by Sarah Pope / Affiliate Links ✔

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Nearly 50% of people make a resolution each New Year to lose weight and get healthier. In fact, a CNN poll in recent days found that 76% of people intend to try and lose weight in 2012.

This goal is not easily accomplished, however, unless you are a self taught expert at deciphering food labels and the many games food manufacturers play with ingredient names.

MSG, for example, has over 50 different names that are used to disguise it on food labels with the primary goal of fooling the consumer. Consumption of MSG is associated with obesity, hormone disruption among many other problems, so avoiding this additive in the foods you buy if you are trying to lose weight is very, very important!

In this video lesson, I show you how to easily buy the best brands and avoid ones that will harm your health – all without knowing a thing about food labels!

If you can do only a single thing this year to improve your health, follow the recommendation in this video and you will finish 2012 a whole lot healthier than you started it.  My guess is that you will have lost a whole lot of weight too if that is your goal!

How to Read Food Labels EASILY

In the video below, I show you the best tool I’ve ever found for wading through the complicated world of food labels. You don’t have to become self taught or be an expert at anything. Just get this small booklet, keep it in your purse and pull it out to make sure whatever you buy at the supermarket or healthfood store is the best quality brand for your budget dollars.

Now, this booklet is available as an app for your phone! Click here to find out more.

*To order the inexpensive booklet mentioned in the video to read food labels easily and without stress, click here.   If you order 10 or more to hand out to friends and family, each booklet is even less!

Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist

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Sarah Pope

Sarah Pope MGA has been a Health and Nutrition Educator since 2002. She is a summa cum laude graduate in Economics from Furman University and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

She is the author of three books: the bestseller Get Your Fats Straight, Traditional Remedies for Modern Families, and Living Green in an Artificial World.

Her four eBooks Good Diet…Bad Diet, Real Food Fermentation, Ketonomics, and Ancestrally Inspired Dairy-Free Recipes are available for complimentary download via Healthy Home Plus.

Her mission is dedicated to helping families effectively incorporate the principles of ancestral diets within the modern household. She is a sought after lecturer around the world for conferences, summits, and podcasts.

Sarah was awarded Activist of the Year in 2010 at the International Wise Traditions Conference, subsequently serving on the Board of Directors of the nutrition nonprofit the Weston A. Price Foundation for seven years.

Her work has been covered by numerous independent and major media including USA Today, ABC, and NBC among many others.

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Comments (37)

  1. Stanley Fishman

    Jan 4, 2012 at 12:20 pm

    This is a great video. But you cannot find something on the label if it is not there. The FDA does not require that all ingredients be on the label. Some very powerful chemical flavoring agents are not required to be on the label, because the amount used is small in volume. Yet these chemicals can have a powerful effect.

    Nanites are not required to be labeled, but are already in many food products and food packaging, as well as many medications.

    Finally, the food industry is constantly using new technology, which is often not on the label. Most people have heard of nanites only from science fiction stories, or not at all. Yet they are in wide use. We do not even know what some of these unlabeled additives are.

    We try to avoid packaged foods to the extent we can, because labeling requirement are so lax. If we buy a packaged food, we try to get only one hundred percent organic, or from a company we trust to be committed to real food. Those are few and far between
    . I wish the FDA would leave our farmers alone and concentrate on forcing the food manufacturers to label every ingredient clearly. We are nowhere near that now, and you cannot trust the label to reveal everything.

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  2. Grecian_VG (@Grecian_VG)

    Jan 4, 2012 at 4:03 am

    Video: Reading Food Labels – The Healthy Home Economist http://t.co/Ot6lXYBv

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  3. Tonya

    Jan 4, 2012 at 1:55 am

    Thank you!

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  4. Aimee

    Jan 3, 2012 at 10:39 pm

    Wonderful video, thanks Sarah! As I live in Australia I was just wondering if there is much point in me purchasing this shopping guide, as maybe none of the information is relevent as the brands arent in Oz. Thanks!

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    • Sarah, TheHealthyHomeEconomist

      Jan 3, 2012 at 11:12 pm

      I’m not really sure Aimee. But, for $1 plus 50 cents shipping (maybe a few cents more to get to you), it’s worth a shot to see! Some of the brands are available in multiple countries like Kerry Gold butter for example.

  5. Laura

    Jan 3, 2012 at 9:58 pm

    This is the perfect opportunity to ask a question I’ve had about the shopping guide for months! I have the 2011 Shopping Guide, and I JUST ordered the 2012 one yesterday. (I’m one step ahead of you, Sarah!) But I was wondering about the quality of the products these companies offer. So many “organic” companies out there are trying to cut corners and offer sub-standard “organic” products. They’re hiding behind the organic seal, pretending to deliver high-quality products, and marking up their prices because they know people will pay more for organic. I’ve even heard that organic produce companies are beginning to use conventional pesticides that the USDA is permitting to be sprayed on certified organic crops.

    Are the products in the shopping guide true high quality? Do I need to do additional research?

    Also, is organic produce from the supermarket even worth it any more? Do I have to buy directly from a farmer 100% of the time to ensure that I’m not ingesting nutritionally-deficient, pesticide-laden food?

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    • Sarah, TheHealthyHomeEconomist

      Jan 3, 2012 at 11:10 pm

      The brands in the Shopping Guide are vetted before being allowed in there, so I feel quite comfortable trusting the information. Products that are in there one year may not be the next reflecting that manufacturers sometimes cheapen their products and what was good before may no longer be good. I buy quite a bit of organic produce from the store. While local is always best, this is not always possible or even practical.

  6. Laura

    Jan 3, 2012 at 4:02 pm

    I could hear the video, but it was just a black screen.

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    • Sarah, TheHealthyHomeEconomist

      Jan 3, 2012 at 4:28 pm

      Try it again. Someone else had this problem and then tried it again and it was fine.

  7. thehealthyhomeeconomist via Facebook

    Jan 3, 2012 at 2:57 pm

    Many months. It is alive because it is fermented and so does not go off for a very long time as long as it is kept in a cool cabinet out of the light.

    Reply
  8. Anita Messenger via Facebook

    Jan 3, 2012 at 2:33 pm

    Does anyone on here have any idea how long fermented cod liver oil (or just plain cod liver oil) will stay good stored on a shelf unopended? Opened? Does it go rancid like other fats?

    Reply
  9. KL

    Jan 3, 2012 at 1:34 pm

    I did buy the pamphlet — the only complaint I have is –most of the the Best are not available in CA. And most don’t offer mail order :(. But for $1 –it is worth it anyway

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    • Maya

      Jan 3, 2012 at 11:47 pm

      I agree with you KL. I was hoping to find the Best products in Toronto.. but no luck 🙁

  10. Magda

    Jan 3, 2012 at 1:22 pm

    I haven’t gotten my 2012 one yet but I have used the previous versions a lot. Now I find myself going there more for reference when I see questions from others, simply because I buy so few things in the supermarket anymore…. This year I’m going to order a number of the 2012 guides and save my 2011 version and send them out to folks who need it. What a great inexpensive way to ‘pay it forward’. Thanks Sarah!

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