Hi. My name is Rene with Reality of Aging and today, I'm going to give you a quick tip: how to read food labels.

This has been the most confusing thing that there is to know about nutrition. The reason why is because the FDA has allowed the food companies to play with the numbers.

Here's a food label Nutrition Facts. You'll see that and everybody reads this part. It's the little white boxed out area and it gives you the percentages of what this has, what that has; fats, cholesterol, so on and so forth.

Unfortunately, the reason why that's so incorrect, so misleading is because they base it on a serving. So, the serving could be one tablespoon, it could be eight ounces.

Because we don't pay attention to the serving size, the numbers that show up in the nutrition facts can be changed because, obviously, the more you have, the higher the other number, the nutritional facts, will be.

And the lesser, the smaller the serving, the smaller the nutritional facts would be. Obviously, if you have sugar in there, you would want that to be at your lowest to read at your lowest, at least.

But, this is where the tip is. Always ignore that. Look at where it says ingredients' right at the bottom. When you see that, you start reading. And the first thing that it has is the highest thing it has. The second thing it has, the second thing on the list, would be the second highest thing it has.
And that's how simple it is.

That's the tip of the day. Don't ignore the nutritional facts and only look at the ingredients. So, whatever is in the ingredients, that's what you have most of. From the top to the bottom, is where the highest contents of it, and so on and so forth in descending fashion. You will have less of whatever else is in here based on where it falls on that list.

So, keep yourself alert. It's misinformation. The ingredients is a solid piece of information. They will tell you exactly what's in here.