You Are What You Eat

We hate over-regulation by the government, but required nutrition labels on food packaging is a regulation that can make us more healthy or possibly even save our lives.  Some of us need to limit certain foods because of our health, so you can learn how many calories, how much fat, sugar, protein, and other vital nutrients are contained in the food you eat by reading the labels on your food.

That sounds good, you say, but what about raw food that doesn't have nutrition labels.  How do I know what nutrients are in those?  Good news!  We can tell you that.  We learned that Kale and Spinach have almost identical nutrition, with the slight edge going to spinach.  Kale is good for you, but it's also a fad.  Our advice: compare foods.  Just because it's popular doesn't mean it's better. You can compare foods side by side with this Website.  And it's free!


We discovered a Website that has all the answers about food:  www.NutritionData.com

With this amazing Website you can analyze any food, any group of foods, such as everything you eat in a day, even a recipe, so you know how many calories are in a slice of cake or pie, or a bowl of soup.  You just enter the ingredients of your recipe, tell it how many servings you want to have, and it tells you all the nutrition data per serving just like you find on a can of beans.

You can track your daily input to see what your glycemic load is for the day, if you're concerned about diabetes.  It will tell you the percent of daily intake is fat, carbohydates, and protein.  You can even calculate how many calories you need to consume daily to reach and maintain a certain weight.

Here's what you should be consuming daily as a percentage of your total consumption:

Carbs: 45-65%
Fat: 20-35%
Protein: 10-35%

NutritionData.com not only tells you this about your daily consumption, it tells you how nutritius and how filling your food is.  Ever wonder why you still feel hungry after eating some foods, but don't feel hungry after eating what looks like the same amount of another food.

Do you know that an apple and a teaspoon of sugar have almost the same number of calories?     An apple will stay with you a long time, but you're hungry almost immediately after a spoon of sugar.  That's because an apple is a complex carbohydate and sugar is a simple carbohydrate.  Don't skimp on carbs, just eat the right amount of the right kind.

Check out this amazing Website if you're serious about your diet and your health:
www.NutritionData.com