NUTRITION FACTS: HELPING CONSUMERS EAT SMART

Shopping and planning has never been easy. And now, with so many people concerned about the nutrient contents of foods, the choices are even tougher to make. But now, new government regulations require food manufacturers and processors to provide dietary information on their food products. There is information on saturated fat, dietary cholesterol, fiber and other nutrients...items that relate to today's health concerns about heart disease, cancer and other dieseases linked, at least in part, to diet. One of the recent changes involves new requirements for food labels. The new food label will have a new name. Now it will be called Nutrition Facts. That title will signal to consumers that the product is correctly labeled according to the new Food and Drug Administration guidelines.