THE FOOD LABEL IS LYING TO YOU
TRUE STORY, I DID THE MATH:
Read The Food Label, But Have A Calculater
I, myself, examined many clients to make this statement. I hope it helps someone. In short, the food labels are lying to you. I included pics of 3 labels. They are in the smallest print for a reason.
I started reading food labels when I was a Personal/Fitness Trainer. In the beginning I was simply studying the protein, carbohydrates, fats, and cholesterol counts as well as the serving size.
Speaking of serving size, if you buy a bag of chips there may be 2.5 servings in the bag, but the average person may eat the entire bag. Anyway, that is another story.
The labels give you the servings/mg per day based on the 'recommended' daily requirement based on the small print. This is why it's in small print. The food companies want you to eat more. They base those numbers on a 2,000 calorie a day diet. I circled that info in red.
Here is WHAT I SAW ... When I was a Personal Trainer we had a device that recorded your RMR/Resting Metobolic Rate. Our clients breathed into it for 5 to 7 minutes. It gave us a for digit number. It measured how many calories your body burned a day at rest. When I side hustled Herbalife we were given a 'slide rule' that did the same thing. I noticed a correlation and another reason I knew GOD was real. In all of the tests the body weight was 10% of the Daily Resting Metobolic Rate!!! In other words, if you weigh 150lbs you eat 1500 calories a day, exercise 3 times a week and you stay they same. If you weigh 150lbs and want to lose weight, eat around 1300 calories a day and exercise around 3 to 4 days a week. If you weigh 150lbs and want to gain weight eat 1700 calories a day and workout at least 3 days a week.
What I am saying is this. The numbers on the label are based on a 2,000 calorie daily diet. Unless you weigh 200lbs that label won't apply to you unless you have a calculator or are good at math on the snap.
EVERY LABEL IN AMERICA HAS THE NUMBERS BASED ON A 2,000 CALORIE DIET
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