Month: January 2017

My Healthy Habit Challenge: I’m Gonna Start Reading Nutrition Labels — Healthy Habit Challenge

Welcome to our Healthy Habit Challenge! Instead of focusing on (impossible-to-keep) New Year’s resolutions, we’re challenging four writers to start a new healthy habit. These challenges aren’t about cutting out sugar or going on a diet, or focused on the negative. They’re about doing something new and good — and making it second-nature. I’m not what you would call an uninformed consumer — in addition to being budget-conscious basically from birth (thanks, Mom!), I worked at Good Housekeeping for more than four years, writing about products tested by the Good Housekeeping Institute, and have reported on grocery-shopping trends for years. Plus, as a personal trainer and because of a medically necessary diet (womps!), I’m generally pretty good about scanning the nutritional facts and looking for certain things on food labels. Specifically, I’m really good at looking to see if something contains gluten.