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I believe the new food label is a good approach to help many Americans to make better eating choices, and understand more clearly about the products around them. I do not use food labels everyday, but there's have been times when i would read my food labels and not understand exactly everything. The pros of the new food labels is that the amount of calories will be bold, and this is a good idea to catch people's eye. Also, it will be easier for people to keep track of their daily intake calories for those who wish to lose weight. The added information, for example, the added sugar, potassium and vitamin D, these are important factors to decrease chronic disease in the U.S. Most people have to keep track of certain things that they intake,
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