FDA Considers Additional Food Labels

September 10, 2007 By ANDREW BRIDGES, Associated Press Writer

(AP) -- If an increasingly overweight America's eyes are bigger than its stomach, then placing more nutritional information in plain sight could allow shoppers to see their way to more healthy choices while scanning food labels.

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