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Food Is Not Just the Sum of Its Nutrients; It Is Time to Rethink Nutrition Labeling

An international panel of nutrition experts has concluded that it’s high time we labeled foods for what they are as a whole, rather than what you get in individual nutrients. For example, cheese as a whole does not have the effect on cholesterol that you would expect by looking solely at its saturated fat content, the University of Copenhagen reports. The panel suggested that nutrition science be more inclusive of how a food is consumed, and what is eaten with it. How we label foods...