Nutritional Information - Then and Now
Please welcome guest blogger Carlos Martinez, Director of Learning at Tasti D-Lite who provided this post.
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Consider this: I have a choice. I have the power to control my intake of calories and fat. For a long, long time (I am an early generation Boomer) there was very little to choose from. For those of you that remember, there was a time when there was no law that required manufacturers to list ingredients and nutritional information for the products they sold. A gallon of ice cream was just that – a gallon of ice cream. See the picture? |
| So I have lived through some times where my choices were based solely on whether I liked the product or not (I was born in 1946). Forget the rest. Forget about calories, fat content, carbs, you name it. In the example above, things were “so good – so good for you”. We all know that things have not stayed that way. Today we can read, inform ourselves, and make a rational decision as to what we buy and eat. We have also come a long way in determining the potential effect on our system of what we eat. I cannot afford not to watch what I eat any longer. I enjoy a good serving of ‘Vanilla ice cream’ once in a while. And I can inform myself about the ingredients, caloric, fat and carb contents, among other fascinating information. I have a choice. I have the power to control my intake of calories and fat. That’s why I have chosen Tasti D-Lite as my favorite treat today. Check out the nutritional facts – you will be just as pleasantly surprised as I was! | |