Re: FN-FORUM: Make my decisions for me!

date posted 21st January 2005 15:12

When I was at school, junk food cost more than real food - now it's the
opposite. There's something wrong with that.

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Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Make my decisions for me!


>
> At 14:22 on Friday, 21 Jan 2005, Nicola Dunn wrote:
>
> > The best way to keep healthy is to learn about what's in foods and
> > what they do for, and to, your body.
> > And to know your body very well.
>
> +1
>
>
>
> but wouldn't it be nice if this nanny state we lived in looked at the
> nutritional value of the food we eat and did something about it?
>
> instead they allow the food manufacturers to add stupid amounts of
> chemicals, salt and sugar to almost every product they sell.
>
> I'm disappointed in a government that is happy to allow cigarette smoking
> and fast food to continue to poison us, yet thinks it's okay to control
> almost every other aspect of our lives in the name of saving lives.
>
> Cigarettes, Alchohol and poor nutrition are responsible for killing
> hundreds of people every day and putting a strain on the Health service.
>
> If they were prepared to tackle the manufacturers involved in the way they
> tackle motorists then they might make a difference. Of course they
> can't/won't so we're left with personal choice to eat and drink poison.
>
> It's a blessing, I suppose that they enforce food labelling, but why not
> deal with it at the source?
>
> just why does vegetable soup need added sugar?
>
> I'd like to recommend the GI diet - which isn't really a diet, just a
> better way of balancing the foods we eat. (http://www.gidiet.com/) but
> we wouldn't need it if food manufacturers concentrated on making good food
> from proper ingredients.
>
> I know we should cook from fresh, but fresh food is rarely labelled, is
> rarely fresh and takes a heap of time to prepare.
>
>
>
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