Government uses internet to teach people how to read food labels...sort of
Posted on Dec 31st 2006 3:03PM by Jonathon Morgan
Not everyone looks at nutrition labels, but expert consensus is: you should.
That's why the Food and Drug Administration has launched two websites to help people better understand nutrition labels. One site, Making Calories Count, takes the user through exercises to help plan a healthful diet while managing calorie intake.
This is a great idea, but the implementation is awful. The site's design is not only a visual abomination, but it's so difficult to navigate that it's more work to figure out how to use the "Training Modules" than it was to understand the nutrition labels in the first place.
But maybe I'm just dumb. Did you visit the site? What did you think?












