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Calorie Counting Hoax: Cooking Spray Concerns
Liberty Check
PAM’s so-called “zero-calorie” label misleads shoppers, thanks to loopholes in federal rules. Washington lets companies count any serving under five calories as zero, so serving sizes become absurdly small.
- Federal policy allows products like PAM cooking spray to be labeled “zero-calorie” as long as each serving is less than five calories, even though a whole can contains over 2,000 calories.
- Americans can unknowingly consume up to five pounds per year of hidden fat from products labeled as “zero-calorie,” undermining genuine free-market transparency.
- Countries like those in the EU and Australia enforce far more honest nutrition standards, requiring calories per realistic quantity; America lags behind because of outdated federal policies.
Americans deserve clarity, not government-assisted deception, when choosing what to feed their families. Tell your representatives to support true truth-in-labeling requirements: zero should mean zero.
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