Making good choices
Anyone who knows me also knows the emphasis I place on not just good but intelligent nutrition. What it really comes down to is making good choices.

To make a good choice means making an educated choice. While eating fresh fruits and vegetables and preparing your own meats and fish is a simple way to ensure the basis for good nutrition, our time-pressed society encourages diets rich in processed, packaged or fast foods instead. As such, it is important for everyone to have a solid understanding of the nutrition labels. Luckily, nutrition labels are readily available, whether you are purchasing items in the grocery store or fast casual/fast food restaurant.

For starters, check out the following website which provides a wonderful in depth discussion of food labels today:

http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/foodlab.html

Then also adopt some of these helpful hints:

Pay attention to serving sizes. A serving of cereal may only be 3/4 of a cup, not half the box.

Look for foods low in sugar. Read the ingredients (listed in order from greatest to least amount used in product). Corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup solids, molasses, etc., are all types of sugar.