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"  It&amp;#039;s been a big week for Michelle Obama. First the first lady worked out with Amy Poehler and a bunch of middle school kids on Tuesday (why was my gym class never that good?). Then today, she announced her support of the proposed changes to the FDA&amp;#039;s nutrition labels:     &amp;quot;For the 1st time since the nutrition label was developed...we\u2019re overhauling these labels to make them easier to read &amp;amp;amp; understand&amp;quot; \u2014FLOTUS \u2014 The First Lady (@FLOTUS) February 27, 2014    Below, the current labeling system (on the left) and the proposed changes (on the right):  Since this isn&amp;#039;t a &amp;quot;Can You Spot the Differences?&amp;quot; in an old Highlights magazine you&amp;#039;re reading in a doctor&amp;#039;s office, I&amp;#039;ll just call out the changes for you: Serving Sizes: Serving sizes would be listed in bigger, bolder print, but they&amp;#039;d also be changed to reflect the portions people actually eat instead of what they should eat. (See: How often do you only eat half the bag of Cheetos?) Calories: Calorie counts would also be featured in bigger, bolder print. (Much bigger, really, making it way harder to hide from the numbers on the side of the Phish Food carton while chasing away the Sunday Scaries.) Sugar: &amp;quot;Added sugars&amp;quot; would be listed separately from sugars. Fat: &amp;quot;Calories from fat&amp;quot; would be eliminated, since science suggests the type of fat people eat (trans, saturated, etc) is more important. Vitamins and Nutrients: Vitamin D and potassium would be listed instead of vitamins A and C. (Sorry, guys.) All the changes seem to make sense to us, but they&amp;#039;re not without criticism from the health and nutrition community. (The American Heart Association, for example, says the FDA&amp;#039;s sodium recommendation is still too high, and they&amp;#039;d like to change that.) But surely something should change, right? As the first lady calls out, the existing labels really aren&amp;#039;t that great. At all.    &amp;quot;Unless you had a thesaurus, a calculator, a microscope, or a degree in nutrition\u2014you were out of luck&amp;quot; \u2014FLOTUS on existing nutrition labels \u2014 The First Lady (@FLOTUS) February 27, 2014    The FDA and the healthcare community should have plenty of time to squabble about the nitty-gritty details, though, with estimates saying the new labels wouldn&amp;#039;t take effect for at least a year, if approved. In the meantime, we still have plenty of days of seeing half a cookie listed as one serving ahead of us. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s a common practice that can even fool nutrition experts,&amp;quot; says Ronald Tamler, MD, of The Mount Sinai Hospital. Photos: Courtesy of WireImage Related: Can a One-Day Soup Cleanse Reset Your System? Related: I Lost Weight on the Chocolate Diet "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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