Get smart with nutrition information panels

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The Nutrition Information Panels or NIP on most packaged foods can be particularly useful in managing the fat and salt in your diet. That’s because they are required to  state the quantity of the very things we are trying to reduce for heart health. Nutrition Information Panels also state... Read More

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