We Are What We Eat

We are what we eat...

What's really in your food?
BY SUZANNE NELSON

Food labels were designed to earn our trust. Since 1990, the Food and Drug Administration has required manufacturers to list the ingredients of their products, and more recently, "Nutrition Facts" boxes appear on everything from cereal to chewing gum.

But as more Americans attempt to make healthy choices about what they put in their bodies, it's becoming increasingly more difficult to discern how our food was grown, processed and treated—-thanks to our collective support of a food industry that wields its heft and political clout to create labeling laws that make a mockery of disclosure.