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You can use the Nutrition Facts table to:  Choose products more easily.  Compare two products to make better food choices for you and your family.  Learn about the nutrition information of the foods you eat.  Better manage special diets.  Increase or decrease your intake of any nutrient.  Health Canada

Have a look at this food label, does anything stand out to you?

If so what stands out? Calories? Fat?

 What have YOU heard about sugar and fat?

 Overall nutrition problems –lack of vitamins and minerals  Diabetes (contributing factor)  Mental health  Weight control Cereal alternative: Cereal alternative?

 Fat is an important nutrient for your health. Fat plays many different roles in the body:  It gives you energy  It helps your body absorb vitamins A, D, E and K.  It helps your body grow and develop.

 A) pork, beef,  B) chicken, turkey  C) Milk, cheese, yogurt  D) oils such as canola or olive

 Oils such as canola and olive.

 Calories are the amount of energy in food. Nutrients that provide calories are carbohydrates, fat and protein. carbohydratesfatprotein  Your body uses the energy from calories to do all of your daily activities - from walking to talking to sleeping. We need to eat food to replenish the calories that we use.

What do you look for on a nutrition fact chart?

Using the nutrition facts table can help you make better, healthier choices. It can help prevent nutrition related chronic diseases such as:  Cancer  Diabetes  Heart disease  Stroke

 5% DV or less is a little and 15% DV or more is a lot. This applies to all nutrients.

 If a food has less than 0.2 grams of trans fat per serving AND is low in saturated fat, the food manufacturer can promote the product as free of trans fat.

 You may be able to compare products that don’t have similar amounts of food.  For example, you could compare the % DVs of a bagel (90 g) to the % DVs of 2 slices of bread (70 g) because you would most likely eat either amount of food at one meal.

 Trans fat is a fat found in food. This is formed by a chemical process called partial dehydration, it is when a liquid oil is turned into a solid fat. Trans Fat is also known to lower HDL (high Density Lipoprotein) which is the healthy cholesterol in our body- which can contribute to factors of heart disease. Although trans fats have been reduced in most foods, it is still in a lot of food s we eat, which is why we find it on the nutrition facts table on foods.  Saturated and trans fats are both known to raise LDL (Low density lipoprotien ) which is the bad cholesterol we find in food. High cholesterol is a risk factor of heart disease.

 The amount of calories you need each day depends on your age, gender, body size, activity level and if you are pregnant or breastfeeding.