Fast-food facts.This February, McDonald's started displaying nutritional information on its food wrappers In data mining and treatment learning, wrappers were used by Ron Kohavi and George John. Their idea was to wrap their treatments learners in a preprocessor that would search to make subsets from the current set of attributes. . The new packaging shows the number of calories (unit of energy) and the percent daily values (%DV) of nutrients in the food. The %DV compares the amount of each nutrient nutrient /nu·tri·ent/ (noo´tre-int) 1. nourishing; providing nutrition. 2. a food or other substance that provides energy or building material for the survival and growth of a living organism. , such as fat and sodium, in the food with the recommended amount that a person should consume, based on a 2,000-calorie-a-day diet. "Having access to this information is the first step toward making better [food] choices," says Linda Van Horn, a nutritionist nu·tri·tion·ist n. One who is trained or is an expert in the field of nutrition. nutritionist Dietitian, see there at Northwestern University Northwestern University, mainly at Evanston, Ill.; coeducational; chartered 1851, opened 1855 by Methodists. In 1873 it absorbed Evanston College for Ladies. in Illinois Illinois, river, United States Illinois, river, 273 mi (439 km) long, formed by the confluence of the Des Plaines and Kankakee rivers, NE Ill., and flowing SW to the Mississippi at Grafton, Ill. It is an important commercial and recreational waterway. . NUTRITION FACTS FOR BIG MAC By following percent daily values (%DV), you can limit some nutrients, including cholesterol--a fat-like substance that in large quantities can increase the risk for heart disease. Approximately how many McDonald's Big Macs would it take to meet 100% DV of cholesterol? To gather nutritional information on all of McDonald's food products, see: www.mcdonalds.com/usa/eat/nutrition_info.html Learn more about the recommended daily values of nutrients at: www.fda.gov/fdac/special/foodlabel/dvs.html For teen-friendly information on how to read food labels, visit: http://kidshealth.org/parent/nutrition_fit/nutrition/food_labels.html [GRAPHICS OMITTED] |
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