I love getting my daily nutrition updates from Fooducate.com, a coalition of parents, health professionals, and technical advisers. And you might too, if you want to become a more discerning food shopper.
The site's at-a-glance explanation of food labels can help steer you through the grocer's aisles with a more educated eye. And the daily blogging tips can help you wrestle your own food demons.
For me, it's my daily cola habit. I can think of worse things than chugging down a soda. But with New York State, where I live, on the cusp of passing a soda tax (which sort of puts it up there with cigarettes in my mind, and that's not a good thing), I've been thinking of cutting back.
Fooducate's advice: Bypass the soda aisle the next time I shop, and the time after that. By the third soda-free shop, I'll probably have moved on to mixing my own concoctions of real juice and seltzer for a healthier energy kick. I'm game!
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Hemi Weingarten [Fooducate]
08:06:32 AM on Mon Jun 21 2010
Sue,
Thanks for mentioning Fooducate this morning.
As a father of three young kids, I couldn't find any good resources to help me buy healthy foods for my family. Thus was born Fooducate.
Good luck breaking the soda pop addiction ;-)
Hemi
The Dad behind Fooducate
elisabeth
11:22:17 AM on Mon Jun 21 2010
I broke a daily cola with lunch habit by switching to homemade "Arnold Palmers."
I make caffeine-free tea (flavored teas like Earl Grey or even chai, or plain) and mix with lower-sodium lemonade (which I found here in the refrigerated juice aisle—made with real sugar, not HFCS, but not too much of it...) and sometimes a little sparkling water. It's delicious and a lot less of what I don't need from soda.