
What Meat and Egg Labels Really Mean
By Marisa Weiss, M.D. on January 15th, 2014 Tags: food labels, healthy eating, organicAnyone who’s read even one of my Think Pink, Live Green columns knows that I am passionate about food and making sure that I eat the healthiest, most nutritious food I can afford. But sometimes when I’m deciding what to buy, I get confused by all the “natural,” “lean,” “responsibly raised,” and other stickers trying to grab my attention on meat and egg products. Since …

Food Label Findings
By Marisa Weiss, M.D. on August 15th, 2013 Tags: food labels, healthy eating, healthy habitsRecently while grocery shopping, I came across a box of tasty-looking breakfast bars. The front of the box promised they’d give me nutritious, sustained energy, but the food label on the back told me the real story. The bars had less fiber and protein and more sugar and sodium (salt) than my usual breakfast cereal. Yikes! They were really just cookies in disguise.
It wasn’t …