UK: The food industry needs to curb the nation’s sweet tooth
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http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/c...tooth-j0qz9czqs |
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And there's your problem, because these industries think they are only responsible to their shareholders; making money for them. |
Putting the fox in the hen house is a recipe for disaster. The food industry will never truly embrace this problem with supporting product decisions to move toward better health. And there's also that word, "health." Just by reading the comment on the salt reduction programme brings to mind that there must be a fact-based concept of healthy eating underlying all these recommendations, or we'll end up limiting things like salt and fats, which are essential for our good health at certain amounts much greater than what is recommended today. The lack of knowledge and agreement regarding what constitutes good health makes all these proposed decisions and actions very dangerous and likely to continue to produce ineffective results if implemented. And the wheel goes round and round . . . .
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And the spokes person they had on BBC breakfast news was all
"It's basically calories, we need to reduce calories as that's what's causing the problems". |
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Part of the problem is public perception and even this report misses the boat. If sugar is the enemy, the root cause of our problems then are the calories really empty? Industry will follow demand. The consumers have to change. We need to see sugar as unhealthy, not simply neutral and lacking nutrients as we were brainwashed to believe. I preach this to my family all the time. The kids get it more than my wife does. They are more mindful of sugar. My wife just won't give up her 'num-nums', though. She loves her sugar and since she does not get fat from it - there is no harm in it (or so she believes). For my wife sugar might be less risky than it is for me. She does not over-react to sweets. She is not compelled to binge on it. I know loads of sugar does not work that way for me, nor 2 of my 3 daughters. Smoking tobacco is now universally understood to be very unhealthy, not simply a bad habit. Both of my maternal grandparents smoked. My grandfather smoked his whole adult life and died in his 90's. He never had COPD, emphysema, or cancer. He got away with it. My grandmother, on the other hand, got throat cancer from smoking in her early 30's and spoke in a whisper for the rest of her life. She gave up smoking as a result, BTW. So is smoking unhealthy or did my grandmother just have bad genes? When you look at the population, it is clear that smoking is unhealthy and a huge burden on the cost of healthcare. Sugar needs to be seen in the same light. At this time it is not... but the tide may be turning. P.S. my wife recently did admit that she was finally putting on a few pounds and needing some new clothes. Perhaps she has finally crossed the line with her sugar consumption and wandered further into the unhealthy side of the SAD. |
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Yes, half-cocked rushing into things is how we got here. Make our wisdom common knowledge and let the chips (heh) fall. The place for regulations is:
Maybe soda bars will be replaced with a variety of flavored seltzers in fast food places. More burgers will come wrapped in lettuce because more people order them because it is more available. French fries made of jicama and bacon fat. They will make healthy food available when people buy it. Salads at McDonald's, people. It happened. |
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