food labels

If diabetes is one of the biggest and growing problems why are carbs not already displayed on the front of packaging? Only displaying 'Sugars' is misleading as that is all the media talks about. ALL carbohydrate (ok except that from fibre but that has already been deducted from the carb value...

I stumbled upon this short 6 minute youtube video today, now I realise this was made in New York but it posses the question how accurate is the dietary information on our food. This page is linked to the video http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/13/opinion/calorie-detective.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0...