Nutrition Unit 4 Essay

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In Unit 3, I learned about the checklists for identifying nutrition misinformation, how to identify nutrition truths, the placebo effect, reliable sources of nutrition information, epidemiological study, and the meta-analysis.

In Unit 4, I learned about the key elements of nutrition labeling standards, what everything means on a nutrition label, food additives, irradiated foods, structure/function claims, fortifcation, what daily values consist of, and the cool rule. I truely understand how to read a nutrition label now.

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