What happens when you allow a Government Commission to decide what is healthy for the citizens? You get food-standards that are so laughably lax that most junk foods can now be considered quite nutritious!
New European Commission Food-Thresholds passed by a group in Brussels have made a mockery of deciding what is healthy. For example, for bakery products, all they want is a maximum of 500 mg sodium, 25 g of sugar and 8 g of saturated fat. This leads to comical situations:
An analysis of 120 foods common in the UK diet by Oxford University suggested that a Tesco jam doughnut with 200mg of sodium, 18g of sugar and 5.7g of saturated fat per 100g would easily meet the health threshold [...] Other products that would be approved would be Sainsbury’s pork sausages, salted Kettle crisps and a Burger King Whopper. [The Independent]
The takeaway? Please don’t the government decide what is good for you! If they can decide that a doughnut is good for you, then it’s quite obvious they haven’t the first clue about how they should be tackling the growing obesity problem. Colin Walker, senior public affairs officer at Which? says: “The UK Government needs to get these proposals thrown out and completely rewritten.”
One would certainly hope so … for the good of all Europeans!
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Wow! Didn’t see that coming. But remember the FDA also once based our entire food pyramid(remember those) on Carbs. I believe that the reccomendation was somewhere between 5-8 servings a day.
I think some would take issue with that today!
The takeaway- make your own health decisions.