Hi everyone,
After my post yesterday which was trying to raise awareness of how important a healthy diet is for all of us especially growing children.
I've looked for scientific studies and found a lot of conjecture about junk food and obesity and thought that this study by Cambridge Uni was fascinating because it states the obvious that we the consumer bought into the whole healthy eating options being g offered.
Personally I think they are possibly being naive not realising how hard it is working and bringing up children especially with the slick tv ads as this article in Science news shows a low fat rice pudding with a healthy eating label and this is what the real issue has been our understanding of a healthy diet for us and our families. I really like this reply:
Testimonies collected in the 1980s and ’90s emphasise that new jargon baffled many consumers. Puzzling over the term ’polyunsaturated margarine’, one respondent to the 1980s questionnaire said: "I understand that poly means many and unsaturated means not chock full of something, so what is margarine poly unsaturated with or not with?"
Taken from the article below please see:
myscience.uk/news/wire/brit...
In my opinion it's us the consumer knowing exactly what we are eating, is the real key to improving the nation's health.