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...Although added sugar was removed from most jarred baby foods in the mid-1990s, baby-food companies continue to offer dessert lines with flavors such as vanilla custard pudding and peach cobbler, loaded with sugar and starch. Early exposure to intensely sweet foods has long-term consequences, says Amy Lanou, a senior nutrition scientist for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a Washington-based nonprofit. "When we're really young, our taste buds are especially attuned to sweet flavors. If you're offered bananas and berries at an early age, that level of sweetness will satisfy...
...those who love meals on the go, frozen dinners and pre-packaged lunches come in handy. But consumers looking for quick nutrition should probably look elsewhere, according to Amy Lanou, a nutritionist at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. "People think of turkey as a lighter meat, less fatty," she says. "But when you take a low-cost frozen dinner, they tend to be the cheaper, fattier cuts of meat." One product with surprising nutritional content is Swanson's Hungry Man XXL Roasted Carved Turkey, which clocks in at 5,410 mg of sodium per package. "Turkey may seem...
...Milk has long been a staple for lunch rooms and late-night snacks, but the new varieties of sugary milk are worth taking another look at, nutritionists say. Lanou recently examined the nutritional content of various chocolate milk cartons side by side with popular colas. "I don't think parents realize that when they offer up sweetened chocolate milk, they're generally giving their children ounce for ounce the same amount of sugar as sodas do," she says. A container of Hershey's Vanilla Cream Milkshake, for instance, has 560 calories and 77 grams of sugar. "If you're going...
Eating well after a workout may be more than just a matter of convenience. "There are great physiological benefits to eating within the first half an hour after you've exercised," says Amy Lanou, nutrition director for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. "You're replenishing your water, carbohydrates and protein right when that's most essential...
...skewed diet and speculated that his heart, not his feet, caused the fall to the ice. "The Atkins corporation has been saying that Dr. Atkins was essentially the picture of good health, that he had healthy arteries. I think this is misleading the public," says Amy Lanou, PCRM's nutrition director...