Canada Needs to Label Added Sugar on Food Nutrition Labels like in US

https://digitalcitizen.ca/category/writing/When I look at contents of packaged foods on a nutrition label, the most important thing I care about is how much sugar is in the product. That’s because, for me, the sugar is what has the most impact of all the other items listed.

  • I’m super fortunate not to have to worry about allergens.
  • I generally get enough good nutrients that how much of that is not super important.
  • I’m healthy enough, and have established a diet healthy enough, not to generally have to worry about bad fats (good summary of fats here);
  • Sugar, everybody is prone to sugar, and easily prone considering how it’s practically everywhere!

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How I Will Examine my 23andMe Genotyping Results, and How I Will Share Them

From my experience with 23andMe’s genotyping service, when results were ready, I got 254 reports all at once, and they didn’t even include much of the ancestry reports! The reports are listed at the end, and were in groupings of:

  • Health risks (120)
  • Drug response (24)
  • Inherited conditions (50)
  • Traits (60)
  • 3 special reports needing individual approval among above groupings
  • 3 health tools to assess some features about you

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