Research has shown that eating healthily with a well balanced diet can prevent most food-related diseases such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes and certain cancers.
There are plenty of products on the supermarket shelves which promise to do just so, but can they be relied on? A new and tougher EU law on nutrition claims seeks to make food labels more trustworthy.
"A lot of products claim to be healthy and as a consumer you have no way of knowing whether the claim is right or not...
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