{"id":234,"date":"2011-08-22T00:41:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T00:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kivatherapeutics.com\/b\/?p=234"},"modified":"2011-08-22T00:41:24","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T00:41:24","slug":"reading-food-labels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kivatherapeutics.com\/b\/2011\/08\/22\/reading-food-labels\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Food Labels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I opened a can of Herdez salsa.  Sounds like salsa made from a Mexican family right?  I read the ingredients to see what I was about to ingest: tomatoes, onions, serrano peppers, iodized salt, and cilantro.    The label on this can is super easy to understand.   No more than 3 syllables per word and we immediately know what to envision when we read the Noun.  I am suspicious of food names that don&#8217;t immediately conjure up an image of the actual item.  Remember that commercial where the little girl is attempting to read the ingredients on the back of the box? I don&#8217;t quite remember what the commercial was trying to sell but the message was clear to me.  Make sure you know what you are putting into your body!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/timigustafson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/food_label_ingredients.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/timigustafson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/food_label_ingredients.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"258\" height=\"238\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I opened a can of Herdez salsa. Sounds like salsa made from a Mexican family right? I read the ingredients to see what I was about to ingest: tomatoes, onions, serrano peppers, iodized salt, and cilantro. The label on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kivatherapeutics.com\/b\/2011\/08\/22\/reading-food-labels\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthandfitness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kivatherapeutics.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kivatherapeutics.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kivatherapeutics.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kivatherapeutics.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kivatherapeutics.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.kivatherapeutics.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"http:\/\/www.kivatherapeutics.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kivatherapeutics.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kivatherapeutics.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kivatherapeutics.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}