MIAMI - When 10-year-old Marie Grandguillotte goes grocery shopping with her mother, she reads the food labels. She looks for calories and ingredients and knows to avoid fat and cholesterol. Reading the food labels was "a little bit confusing, but after a while I got used to it," said the fifth-grader from suburban Doral.
Nutrition experts and the Food and Drug Administration think there should be more kids like Marie. They advocate teaching children to read food labels themselves instead of relying on mom and dad.
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