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So I chose to look at the label for one of my favorite snacks. Cheeeez its! Honestly, I really like the reduced ones becuase growing up my mom always got those because she ate them and wanted better ones for her diet. So I just grew used to the taste of those ones, and the other ones are just too much for me. But anyways, when looking at the chemicals they contain I really wasn't sure what the chemicals were. I took a good guess. Niacin, Thiamin Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid, TBHQ, and Paprika Oleoresin. The Ingredients are Enriched flour,Vegetable oil, Skim Milk Cheese, Salt, Milk, Paprika, Yeast, Cheese cultures and Soy Lecithin. It is a pretty even amount of both. And the chemicals in it don't seem to scary so I feel like they aren't that bad.

I think it is a good thing that the label companies have to give out the amount of transfat in a product. Trans fat can be BAD! It is the fat that sometimes you can't get rid of! bad bad BAD! They raise your bad cholesterol levels and lower your good cholesterol levels. These fats increase the risk for heart disease and stroke. This is why people are so concerned about them now. It didn't used to be as big of a deal, but that is because people didn't know what trans fats were. They didnt realize how bad for you they are. With all the obsity in America, I feel like now that companies have to let people be more aware of this, it may help decrease the numbers. (http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3045792)

While still looking at the cheez its. I think it is half and half about the natural and lab ingredients. I am not a good judge at that though. So someone correct me if I am wrong. When it comes to eating though, I try to stay healthy, but I don't do that great of a job. But like I said earlier, my parents like the low calorie and reduced fat snacks, so that helps out a lot. I am not that tempted to eat that much junk while I am at home. The worst part about trying to eat healthy is where I work. Since I work at an ice cream store, the temptation to eat all that junky and fattening ice cream is always there. But Baskin Robbins recently has been trying to incorrporate a healthy thing, and we have a few low fat ice creams that are soo good. So I usually just stick with those. The concern for my health comes in with the fact that high blood pressure and cholesterol runs in the family. So I really try to be more concerned with my eating in order to avoid those risks later on in life.