Carly is an overweight 21-year-old who is committed to good health after taking a nutrition course. She realizes that being a savvy shopper is part of the process and decides to learn how to look more critically at food labels. She picks up two different boxes of ready-to-eat breakfast cereal and sees the food labels shown in Figure 1. Help Carly evaluate these two breakfast cereals.
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Carly decides to eat three-fourths of a cup of cereal #1 with three-fourths cup of fortified skim milk. Based on a 2,000 calorie diet, what percent of calories of carbohydrates will she consume?
a. ?6 percent
b. ?8 percent
c. ?10 percent
d. ?12 percent
e. ?14 percent
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A. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) B. U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) C. Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics D. Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
Evaluating outcomes involves comparing the current _______________ with the previous _______________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
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