For those who don’t grow or raise food, good nutrition begins at the grocery store. But how many of us actually stop to think about making the healthiest choices when we shop?

“Nutrition isn’t really taught,” Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium community dietician Genevieve Armstrong said in an interview this week.

Obesity and its attendant health problems, diabetes and heart disease, are epidemic in our country, an issue frequently reported in the media, Armstrong said.…