Today on the exam room.

You go down the aisles and it's so hard to discern what is and is not healthy.

This is the exact problem that my grandmother was facing as she got a pre-diabetes diagnosis and her doctor said,

hey, your A1C is too high. Let's look at what you're eating. And she said, I thought I was eating well.

I'm walking down the cereal aisle and picking things that say heart healthy or high fiber.

And so how can that be wrong?

My doctor told me to eat dark chocolate instead of milk chocolate.

And I'm grabbing what looks like healthy dark chocolate.

And what we realized together is that what is on the front of the

package doesn't always match what's on the back. And so we created the food health score

to analyze the back of the package, to look at the nutrition facts panel in the ingredient list

and tell you in one simple number from 1 to 100, how healthy is this food for me once and for all?

Welcome to the exam room podcast, brought to you by the Physicians Committee.

Hi, I'm Chuck Carroll, raising health IQs coast to coast and around the world.

Hi to the exam room. He's listening in Boston, Massachusetts, Des Moines, Iowa, and Melbourne, Australia.

Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place.

This is episode 9 of season 9, number 708 overall.

And today, my friends, we are tackling one of the most

confusing parts of healthy eating. We, of course, are talking about the grocery store.

Because let's be honest, we're talking about food packages that make a lot of promises,

from being heart healthy to being high in protein or to being just natural.

But a lot of that is misleading.

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