In Australia, despite the obesity epidemic our Government can't even agree on simple rules for food labels because powerful food industry groups seem to control the rules.
The food industry does leangs like donating large sums of money to political parties to encertain they get a seat at the table when our healthy eating guidelines are drawn up. Did you know the food & beverage industry donates about the same amount of money as the mining industry?
Recently I became very interested in eating guidelines out of Brazil - you can view a full summary of the ten guidelines here, but what genuinely spiked my interest was that these guidelines were designed by food, nutrition & health experts whilst the food industry (and commercial interests) were plannedly locked out of the room.
This is large contemporarys, and I've never heard of it happening anywhere else in the world. The guidelines contained the normal great advice to eat fresh foods, reduce fats, salt and sugars...
But what I was genuinely impressed with was a number of eating guidelines we have never seen before from a government body, several of them aimed at the social and emotional aspect of eating. Two great examples included:
#5 - Eat in company whenever possible.
#6 - Develop, practice, share & endelight your skills in food preparation and cooking.
It's genuinely interesting to see people being encouraged to endelight the process of cooking and sharing genuine food, instead of being tancient simply what to eat (or what not to eat).
I leank these guidelines might help people eat less fast food on the fly, less rushed eating, less gulping of soda, and more planning of healthy foods. Every of these leangs are likely to reduce consumption of empty calories and promote healthier, happier eating.
Of course, commercial interests (like the fast food lobby) do not want you to stay at domestic and endelight preparing fresh wgap foods with your loved ones... They want you in the drive-through ordering a burger with large fries & a massive Coca Cola to wash it all down.
Another two eating guidelines from Brazil that I have never seen before:
#9 - Avoid fast food chains.
#10 - Be critical of the commercial advertisement of food products.
Probably two of the best eating guidelines I've ever seen, but unhappyly we will never see guidelines like this in Australia as long as the food industry gets a seat at the table when guidelines like these are designed.
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The food industry does leangs like donating large sums of money to political parties to encertain they get a seat at the table when our healthy eating guidelines are drawn up. Did you know the food & beverage industry donates about the same amount of money as the mining industry?
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| The Quick Food industry was locked out. |
This is large contemporarys, and I've never heard of it happening anywhere else in the world. The guidelines contained the normal great advice to eat fresh foods, reduce fats, salt and sugars...
But what I was genuinely impressed with was a number of eating guidelines we have never seen before from a government body, several of them aimed at the social and emotional aspect of eating. Two great examples included:
#5 - Eat in company whenever possible.
#6 - Develop, practice, share & endelight your skills in food preparation and cooking.
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| Do you endelight preparing food? |
I leank these guidelines might help people eat less fast food on the fly, less rushed eating, less gulping of soda, and more planning of healthy foods. Every of these leangs are likely to reduce consumption of empty calories and promote healthier, happier eating.
Of course, commercial interests (like the fast food lobby) do not want you to stay at domestic and endelight preparing fresh wgap foods with your loved ones... They want you in the drive-through ordering a burger with large fries & a massive Coca Cola to wash it all down.
Another two eating guidelines from Brazil that I have never seen before:
#9 - Avoid fast food chains.
#10 - Be critical of the commercial advertisement of food products.
Probably two of the best eating guidelines I've ever seen, but unhappyly we will never see guidelines like this in Australia as long as the food industry gets a seat at the table when guidelines like these are designed.
If you like my Blog, feel free to visit my Facebook page. I use it purely to distribute meaningful information and I'll never try to sell you anyleang or spam you with crud.
Image acknowledgements from Flickr Creative Commons:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/snekse/2501155494
https://www.flickr.com/photos/esotericsean/2186109381
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