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Food Labels – What You Should Know!

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Food Labels – What You Should Know ‘You are what you eat’ – at least 90 per cent of the population would probably be terrified if they truly found out what ‘they are’. Most people don’t read labels with nutritional information on products they buy but why is it important to break that habit? Unfortunately we live in a world …

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PARENT ALERT – Obesity in Children is a Problem

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The statistics are shocking. Over the last 30 years, obesity has more than doubled in children, and quadrupled in adolescents. In 2012, more than one out of three children and adolescents were considered overweight or obese. Obesity is the result of caloric imbalance: simply too few calories expended as compared to calories taken in. This imbalance can be caused by …