Nutrition
You have to hand it to the big multinationals. They know how to get us to eat more fatty food and drink more sugar, even when they claim to be committed to our health and well-being and no one has done it better recently than Coca Cola.
Their latest campaign, which encourages people to seek out a can of regular, full strength, eight teaspoons of sugar per 375ml of soft drink that has their name written on the label, is nothing short of brilliant.
And then, once you have your own can, you can also seek out cans that feature your best mate’s name, or your kids can find one with their name… the list goes on.
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The National Health and Medical Research Council might know a fair bit about health, but they don’t know anything about cooking.
The NHMRC last week released the innocuous sounding Assessing Cost-Effectiveness in Prevention report. The document is the result of five years of research by people who take carrots, nuts and celery into work in plastic lunch boxes, and think the rest of us should do the same.
The report has at its centre some fairly predictable calls for smokers to be taxed out of existence with an immediate 5 per cent increase in tobacco taxes (on top of the 25 per cent increase in April this year), a 10 per cent increase in the tax on spirits, and an increase in the legal drinking age from 18 to 21.
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Chookowner says:
I stopped all salt when my doctors told me too when I got pregnant. Don’t eat takeaway. Got dreadful postnatal depression. After 15 years had an idea & started using salt again. Bingo!!! What a difference. It is all very well to recommend against salt to high-processed food consumers, but… Read more »
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justmeint says:
The Government is pushing the ‘reduce your salt’ intake….. but wait! There is NO REAL EVIDENCE that an increase in salt will cause people to suffer an increased risk of heart attack….. The studies are there for all to see for themselves, so why is there a push to lower… Read more »
It’s a scary thought, knowing that you have no idea where your food has come from. It may look and taste like you would expect, but it may not have been created the conventional way.
Genetically modified foods are weaselling their way into the diets of unsuspecting Australians. That is, any food product that includes genetically modified organisms.
While there are some labelling laws in place to help consumers identify genetically modified (GM) food products, there are still many instances where the public remain oblivious.
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Joe West says:
Amazing reading this articles response from readers. Do we all accept now in November of 2010 that GM foods are straight out poison or do we still need more research? Read more »
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anna says:
I remember watching that documentary about the dogs how they are being farmed for looks that they can barely walk. Most used to look extremely different to how they are today. Just look at a pug dog it didn’t used to look like that before animal organizations like the one… Read more »
David Penberthy’s health sandwich is laden with a generous helping of cynicism and a pinch of exaggeration.
By calling for a reduction of the harmful fats in our food, Bob Carr is not seeking to ban fast food outlets. Instead, he is highlighting how easy it would be to make our takeaway foods substantially healthier.
Australians love to eat out - nearly one in three of us do so almost every day, which adds up to a massive 3.8 billion meals eaten out every year.
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Turkey says:
Some splash in the grey while others swim in the black and white. Either way individual health is a community responsibility so let us make an infomed decision and provide the healthy alternative. It’s been a while since I have ordered grilled fish and received dirty looks! Read more »
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Dan says:
So Paul, because I don’t have a black & white view, I’m flip flopping? Yeh right. Here’s a shock for you; not every issue is black & white, and neither is every issue involving cancer. Cigarettes cause cancer, but should they banned? Some say yes, other might say no. It’s… Read more »
Our supposedly classless society is showing signs of being divided into two camps where people’s private choices as individuals and their behaviour as families are regulated on the basis of their affluence.
And it’s in the area of nutrition, preventative health and exercise where the working class, for want of a better term, is increasingly being treated like a bunch of babies, while the more affluent members of society continue to live as they please.
It’s only a small thing but it’s a signifier for the times, a demonstration of a mindset which holds that working class people are unable to modify their behaviour, while the gentry can be trusted to keep its conduct in check. But get along to the SCG, that great people’s arena, where our knockabout, egalitarian society lets the members drink as much full-strength beer as they want and limits the great unwashed to light beer.
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Sir Lolsworthy says:
Yes, E, that’s exactly what I said. Thank god someone was able to work it out. In case you can’t tell, I’m being sarcastic. Get your hands on copies of ‘Fast Food Nation’ and ‘Don’t Eat This Book’ if you want to learn about the realities of the situation Read more »
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Sophie says:
I blame the baby boomers. Aspirational… apathetic and about to become a massive burden on the healthcare system. Read more »
I have always had a fair deal of respect for nutritionist Rosemary Stanton but realised yesterday that this is only because I haven’t been paying attention.
Not sure if the rest of you caught it, but Mrs Stanton has launched a pretty out-there tirade against Bindy Irwin’s new commercial deal as the public face of a particularly sinister company.
Not Union Carbide or Exxon or British Aerospace but the baking products conglomerate Greens General Foods, one of the shadiest players in the evil cake trade.
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Shoshana Young says:
BTW somebody spelled Bindi’s name wrong!! Read more »
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Shelley says:
We have gotten way off track here - Rosemary stanton is right, how could you disagree with the rising obesity, chemicals in food and some are banned in other countries and can cause reactions like headaches and worsening of asthma and children looking up to Bindi and thinking that its… Read more »
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