When is food healthful or not healthful? That's the question before the Food and Drug Administration.
Under current guidelines, a sugary kids' cereal might meet the official definition of healthful. But natural foods that are recognized by health experts as good for you, such as salmon, avocado or almonds, would not be considered healthful.
That's because when the FDA set the current guidelines for healthful foods in 1994, low fat was the prime criterion and other issues, such as sugar, weren't the priority.
But now researchers recognize that some natural fats can be okay.
So the FDA is starting to redefine its view of what constitutes "healthful."
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