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FDA Cooking Up Helpful New Nutrition Facts Label

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Uncle Sam wants you to know more about what you're eating.

The Food and Drug Administration is revising the nutrition facts label -- that breakdown of fats, salts, sugars and nutrients on packaging -- to give consumers more useful information and help fight the national obesity epidemic.

A proposal is in the works to change several parts of the label, including more accurate serving sizes, a greater emphasis on calories and a diminished role to daily percent value numbers for substances like fat, sodium and carbohydrates.

It's the latest attempt to improve the way Americans view food and make choices about what they eat, and comes in the wake of major advances in nutrition regulations by the Obama administration.

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