Can you trust calorie counts on food labels? What the nutrition scientists say [MSNBC.com]
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The math it took to calculate the number of calories in your favorite snack involved a lot more guesstimation than you may think.The Food and Drug Administration began requiringstandardized nutrition labelinglist calorie countsJust how accurate are these calorie counts?The popular protein bar brand David is currentlyfighting a lawsuitNutrition scientists say there’s wide variation in how many nutrients and calories each person absorbs during digestion.That’s why theFDA allows a discrepancy of up to 20% when counting caloriesFor example, if a frozen meal is labeled as having 500 calories, it could have as many as 600 calories and still be compliant, said Lindsay Moyer, a registered dietitian at the Center for in the Public Interest.Dr. Zhaoping Li, chief of the clinical nutrition division at UCLA, said the amount of energy we get from food is affected by many factors, such as “how well your stomach digests it, how much is absorbed in your small intestine, and what energy can be harves
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