What you need to know about planned new nutrition labels

Major changes are planned for how foods are labeled in the U.S. The move is designed to address the reality of how Americans now eat.

First lady Michelle Obama will join the Food and Drug Administration Thursday to announce the planned changes, and the government recently unveiled two proposals. Together, they mark the first major overhaul since 1994.

"Because they're making the serving sizes bigger, the FDA is not telling us we should eat more. They're just telling us what's really in this product."

In the case of ice cream, for example, a half-cup serving will no longer be used, but rather a larger portion that's more realistic, Young said.

Young, author of "The Portion Teller Plan" and an adjunct professor of nutrition at New York University, endorses many of the changes but said the label falls short in one area. "They're going to have things like cups, units, (but) they still are doing metric (measurement) with grams," she said. "I would prefer to see ounces."

For more on the labels, watch Young's full analysis in the video above.