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What Are You Really Eating?
Amanda Ursell
Hay House
£5.99 Review by Pat Wilson
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Thoughts of buying and reading a book about ‘Food
Labelling’ might just send you to sleep but before you drift
off consider something.
You are striving to be fit, healthy and slim and are
watching what you eat and you know exactly what you are
eating, don’t you?
The information crammed on a food label confuses even the
‘experts’ who are watching what they eat. Amanda Ursell begins
her book with a reassuring statement – ‘I’m a nutritionist and
until I sat down to write this book, even I was bemused by
some of the things I’d read.’
In a personal and down-to-earth style (no heavy technical
jargon here) Amanda covers all angles on a food label; what
the terms on the labels mean; what ‘claims’ can be made and
how to understand exactly what they mean; symbols and logos;
organic foods;’ genetically modified foods;’ additives;’ the
meanings of ‘pure,’ ‘natural’ and ‘traditional’ on products’;
functional foods and much more. Keeping the book topical.
Amanda gives two chapters to Glycaemic Index and Low Carb
diets. Cutting through some of the confusion, Amanda goes
through each aspect of the diets and explains how knowing
about food labels helps you to make the right decisions about
what to buy to follow these diets.
The book clarifies legal requirements and what can
and cannot be said on a label. It also clarifies whether there
are in fact any legal requirements for certain claims. Knowing
the rules does help. Knowledge gives you the power to make the
right choices.
The books may surprise you as it actually makes the subject
of food labelling interesting; you want to know more as you
read each chapter.
At £5.99 this book is a worthwhile purchase for anyone who
really wants to know what they are eating and follow a healthy
diet.
Get you copy from The Hut for £5.99
including UK delivery.
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