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Constantly reading food labels when you go to the grocery store, this news may change your life, for real. the fda is proposing the first upgrade to nutrition labels in 20 years. the government wants to change what a serving size is and making it easier and make it make more sense. from foodbabe.com, first, sanjay, explain how these food labels are changing. >> yeah. so i wanted to show you that. and also remind you that in 1990s, as you mentioned, when the food labels became mandatory, before that it was voluntary. it's a big shift. basically, the way to characterize this is the information t...

>> tom, ice cream. don donny, you have it now. i've stopped because i know i couldn't stop unless i eat the whole thing. >> that is the problem. >> i think it should be more honest and say that is a whole serving or maybe i'm just a piggy but that is what happens when you eat that type of food. you can't stop. so that is like -- one serving of that is 500 calories which is ridiculous. i don't know how many grams of fat. can i take it further, tom? you're a reporter. i have an issue like -- look at this. cheetos and mountain dew and it's not nutrition in any way on the label. they should just s...

Out. the flight landed from in oakland. and the cause of the incident is under investigation. >> today for the first time since the nutrition label was developed two decades ago, we are overhauling the labels to make them easier to read and understand. this is a major undertaking involving folks from across the country from the fda and to the food industry and advocates in the communities in this country. >> that was first lady michelle obama announcing new labels to highlightical rows and sugars want. it will be the most sweeping changes in decades. how will it help america. mimi, great to se...

Let get to lea gabrielle in a grocery store. >> i'm eating ice cream, and when i dig into one of these things i'm going to the bottom. now, these new labels will tell us things that will add information. for example, new serving size on this. it's a full coup rather turn full cup rather than half cup. this is a single serving container. there's actually two section in here. the new labels will tell us how many calories in the container. this snack here, single serving but actually two servings, so this will give us how many calories in the entire package. and my favorite, the family size chip....