Nanny and the food fascists have donned their jackboots again, this time they are marching to war against sugar.
A reports by the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) wants to government to "instruct" adults and children to halve the amount of sugar they consume and eat almost twice as much pasta, potato and other fibrous foods.
Oh yes?
When did government edicts wrt what we eat ever make a positive impact on people's habits/lives?
Any such edict will simply piss people off and make them even more reluctant to adjust their eating habits.
Nutritionists said that people conforming to the new guidelines would need to make "extreme changes" to their diets. The proposed limit on sugar, 25g for women and 35g for men, is the equivalent of a single can of coca-cola a day - and no other sugary food at all.
Analysis obtained by The Telegraph suggests that the thresholds will leave almost no space for treats and will require the consumption of eight portions of fruit and vegetables a day, rather than the five recommended now.
Humans are not robots, they are fallible creatures who enjoy "decadence". Extreme nutritional diktats such as this are guaranteed to fail!
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Pasta can make you very fat because it typically comes embedded in various types of "tasty" slime when you don't roll your own. I wouldn't call potato a fibrous food either!
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