I supermercati hanno detto di tagliare 100 calorie dai cestini degli acquirenti in New Anti-Obesity Drive
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/health/supermarkets-could-face-fines-under-new-government-obesity-targets/
di tylerthe-theatre
I supermercati hanno detto di tagliare 100 calorie dai cestini degli acquirenti in New Anti-Obesity Drive
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/health/supermarkets-could-face-fines-under-new-government-obesity-targets/
di tylerthe-theatre
50 commenti
> Supermarkets told to cut 100 calories from shoppers’ baskets in new anti-obesity drive
Sir, don’t you think you have enough chocolate? Go put it back.
Not the food manufacturers then?
Strange place to start…
Just encourages further shrinkflation, pay the same price for less food.
“Health Secretary Wes Streeting said: “If everyone who is overweight reduced their calorie intake by around 200 calories a day – the equivalent of a bottle of fizzy drink – obesity would be halved.”
Does the health secretary not realise that the vast majority of fizzy drinks are basically calorie free now?
Every fifth Mars bar in a multi-pack will now just be a block of wood.
This is a waste of money. Go back to the drawing board.
How about a push for simple ingredient foods, rather than this low kal nonsense
The government should just build their own MyFitnessPal style app which counts calories, builds structured meal plans, educates and then offers coupons/discounts on healthy food. Make it completely free and force all food/drink manufacturers to provide the data.
I think shrinkflation is already df my that anyway.
Increase VAT on processed foods, high fat foods, junk food and sweets. Decrease VAT on fruit, veg, whole foods and protein.
I’m starting my own drive, for every 100 calories you cut from your baskets I’m buying another bar of chocolate!
That’s as toothless as asking telecos to stop spoofed caller-id
Yayyy less nutrition for the same (or more money). As if shrinkflation and price gouging hasn’t been rampant the last few years already. Why don’t we just skip ahead to the part where we all subsist on government mandated gruel and be thankful.
Why don’t we do something drastic like… I don’t know, use a junk food tax to directly subsidise fruit and vegetables which are ridiculously expensive and last about 3 days before going mouldy.
At some point, we have to let people do their thing and take personal responsibility for managing their health and their weight.
We are biologically programmed to crave high fat, high sugar, high carb foods.
In a free market, these items are always going to be readily available. At what point does taxation, and shrinkflation, (that have already been implemented with little to no success), stop being the answer?
Everyone has known for years that you need to eat lots of fruit and veg, avoid junk food, don’t smoke, so some exercise.
We also live in a society where convenience is king. People work such long hours, and modern demands are such that people are living their lives too exhausted to be able to prioritise their diet and health.
Knowledge is not the answer.
Taxation is not the answer.
I doubt changing a store layout is the answer, either.
The only answers lie with drastic, unpalatable / morally compromising options.
Those being – ban on junk food. Healthcare privatisation.
I thought the sugar tax was going to cure all your woes?
(oh, that’s right, you just have drinks filled with nasty chemicals now)
Actually kinda sucks for those who rely on cheap calories to get our daily needs and aren’t fat. Low calorie foods are not my friend, I’m always a full fat milk kind of guy (and I never get fat)
Size of sweets and biscuits will be reduced even further – but of course prices won’t.
Supermarkets about to add three for the price of two promotions on Yorkie bars to make up the difference in sales?
How about the government stop policing what people buy/eat, and rather invest in public awareness campaigns **and preventative healthcare**.
Governments role in what we shop should be limited to preventing harmful stuff being added into our foods.
I encourage you all to read the article before commenting on this one as the headline isn’t really representative of the comment. Good luck with that, I know.
This is asking supermarkets to report average shopping habits and then develop ways to move that in a more healthy direction. There is very little direct government intervention or mandates involved.
They’ll just reduce the amount and keep the price the same
Just more excuses for supermarkets to give less for the same price
“Health Secretary Wes Streeting said: “If everyone who is overweight reduced their calorie intake by around 200 calories a day – the equivalent of a bottle of fizzy drink – obesity would be halved.”
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say most obese people are not just going over maintainable calories by 200 kcal a day.
It would take 3.5 years to lose 5st at 200kcal per day
You can tell it’s bullshit because they are pretending they care about your health. this is yet another price increase/ shrinkflation
It would be nice if they just made healthy food cheaper.
Not even a single bag of walkers crips. This is just going to be another attempt at ripping off shoppers who are already struggling no doubt.
Or just people should eat less instead of punishing everyone else
Probably solved
Or just take some responsibility to not ruin it for us who look after our bodies
How about making fresh fruit & vegetables more accessible? Provide healthy alternatives that are actually good quality?
Low salt = high fat or high sugar
Low sugar = high fat or high salt
Low fat = high sugar or high salt
Until we address this, we won’t get far
You can have tasty food without high sugar, high salt or high fat but manufacturers don’t seem to care
Oh, do one. Give us clear information about the products and we’ll do with that what we want.
Dumb af. Food education needs to improve. Stop the fad diets and teach the people about **balanced** diets and caloric intake.
as much as I am losing weight at the moment, and as such im making good decisions, there is still alot wrong with this.
Why is the Government willing to tell us what we should and should not buy, via nudging by the supermarkets, not also telling supermarkets to pay people a true living wage, telling supermarkets to drop prices across the board, and making housing cheaper?
What about cutting plastic like they said they would 5 years ago?
It’s not just the calories though. My partner has struggled with their weight for years. They stuck rigidly to calories controlled diets. Never worked.
Meanwhile I eat shit all day and stay the same size.
My partner went on ozempic and the weight is falling off. Like huge losses. There’s something else going on.
I’m having to endure an NHS pre-diabetes course to try & stave off the onset of type2 diabetes. I’m particularly prone due to being south Asian.
Over the past 3 years my weight has gone up uncontrollably (although I’m not overweight officially) & my diet slowly changed from healthy, fresh food & lots of homemade meals to eating highly processed, unhealthy food.
The reason for that is squarely on my GP, who took 3 years to diagnose & then treat the symptoms of perimenopause. I was so exhausted for 3 years that I could only manage the bare minimum of “take stuff out of the freezer, put it in the oven, eat off one plate” because both cooking & then doing the dishes was completely physically beyond me by the end of a work day.
Prior to that, I was a healthy & athletic lady who walked hundreds of miles a year carrying heavy rucksacks up mountains & called it a holiday. By the time I got prescribed HRT I could barely walk up the hill outside my house to the Dr’s.
My problem isn’t what I buy at the supermarket. I go there and buy healthy food with the intention of a healthy week. But I’m addicted to junk food. So the takeaways and meals out are the issue. I have zero self control and blame no one but myself. My eating is linked to my mental health. Food addiction is as serious as drug and alcohol addiction but isn’t treated as seriously. People who are overweight are just deemed lazy.
FFS a two finger kit kat is almost 100 kcal, same with a bag of crisps.
We will redfine dozen to be 10 problem solved.
This is such a stupid way of trying to fix things. Go after those who make shit food. Teach people to cook decent meals that arnt full of crap.
Rice beans and lentils is incredibly healthy and costs less than 20p for a meal. Its terrible to eat regularly. Teaching people to make healthy tasty food is way better.
Nanny state done to avoid the reality that people will make less healthy choices when they’re depressed and struggling to make ends meet.
This is yet more political theatre designed to look like there doing something while nothing changes.
I’m so done with fat people ruining portion sizes / value for money for everyone else.
Just tax them more to contribute more to the NHS for their obesity instead of impacting everyone else.
Are they going to give us a weekly ration book too.
So very tall people and people doing sport or physical jobs are once again going to get fucked by higher food prices?
Ready meals are useful for me because I have trouble eating enough and they are easy. But it’s getting ridiculous, eating a 350 calorie “healthy” ready meal that costs £4.5 when I should eat 3300 calories per day.
Literally makes fast food restaurants the cheaper “easy” alternative. And once you go to mcdonald’s it’s extremely easy to overeat even on 3300 calories – I know I track mine…
And what about those of us who are actively trying to put weight on? We now have to pay more?
I think they are doing it with all the prices and shrinkflation.
Anything to avoid pointing out that it is our societal living conditions that are making us sick …
Or people could just eat less and move more? Physics works.
It’s just a stealth tax. What’s healthy food anyway? It sure ain’t reduced fat crap.