There's a new "healthy" label for foods — but what does that mean? After years of deliberation, the FDA recently announced a new set of rules it proposes to regulate claims on food packaging that a product is “healthy.” The most basic rule: the product must actually contain food, not just ingredients. This may seem intuitive, but as professor and nutrition policy expert Marion Nestle points out, the food industry works hard to sell their products. This week on the “First Opinion Podcast,” Nestle explains the purported intentions behind the confusing food labels, and how it all got so complicated in the first place. Listen Now “What we support in this country is feed for animals and fuel for automobiles. What we don’t do is support the production of food for people,” said Nestle. “It seems to me that’s an obvious thing to change. Whether we’ll be able to change it or not is another matter.” Like what you hear? Subscribe to The First Opinion Podcast on your favorite platform. New episodes are released every Wednesday morning. | 
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