Tag: nutrition label

Cholesterol: What’s in a Nutrition Label?

Jessica Brummel October 2, 2017 0 Comments
My family has a history of health issues, so I recently decided to get a jump-start on prevention. But how should I start to eat healthier? I graduate college in a year, and I still don’t fully understand how each nutrient on a nutrition label affects my body. So I started to research. This will be the start of a series on sorting through each nutrient, and why it’s important to know what...
nutrition label with cold cuts and bread

Sodium: What’s in a Nutrition Label?

Jessica Brummel July 21, 2017 0 Comments
  I always knew that too much sodium, like too much of anything, was bad for you. Did that ever stop me from eating a week’s worth of ramen in one sitting? Not at all. Other than needing water afterwards, I never understood what sodium could do to my body - and it can do a lot. Salt specifically affects the circulatory system. If you remember anything from high school biology (other than...