Happy New Year and welcome back to the show!
Understanding and reading food labels is a fundamental practice for safeguarding and enhancing your health. Food labels provide a wealth of information, offering insights into the nutritional content, ingredients, and potential allergens in packaged foods. By carefully examining these labels, you empower yourself to make informed choices about the products you consume.
In this episode Dr. Barb covers:
Why its important to read food labels and how it can impact your health
Understanding serving sizes
The importance of the ingredient list
Why we want to look for hidden sugars and sweeteners
Looking at the types of fat in our foods
Why it's important not to get caught up in health greenwashing Dr. Barb Woegerer is a licensed Naturopathic Doctor practicing in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada as well as virtually with anyone in the province of Ontario. Dr. Barb is passionate about empowering individuals to take control of their own health. Her primary focus is to explore the underlying root cause and provide individualized patient centered care. She utilizes evidence based therapies and provides patients with the knowledge and tools needed to succeed. Her clinical focus is in women’s health, stress management, and inflammatory conditions. Dr. Barb also spends a great deal of time educating individuals on the importance of magnesium and why we all need to add this mineral to our health toolbox. When she’s not seeing patients she loves spending time in nature, reading and experimenting with new recipes in the kitchen.
Dr. Barb's Magnesium E-book covers everything you need to know about this mineral. It covers why so many of us are deficient, what we can do to improve Magnesium status, health conditions, recipes and so much more. Get it here: Magnesium: The Magic Mineral
Dr. Barb's Magnesium Forms E-book that goes over which form of Magnesium to use for what. Get it here: The Magnesium Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to the Different Forms of Magnesium
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