Important nutritional facts aimed at helping consumers know more about what they're eating will be required on labels of 40 of the most popular cuts of meat and poultry under a new rule from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The rule requires nutritional labels on the meat and poultry packages to list the number of calories, grams of total fat, and saturated fat, and takes effect Jan. 1, 2012.
Most people probably find drinking a milkshake a highly pleasurable experience. But apparently that's less apt to be the case for overweight or obese people.
When you pick up a product promoted as trans fat free, you may still be ingesting a significant amount of trans fat, a potentially harmful substance that can shorten your life and expand your waistline according to an article published in the January/February 2011 issue of the American Journal of Health Promotion.