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Chips, Traffic Lights and F.S.A.

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This is not a diabetic issue, something that needs understanding. It is all about obesity and the FSA seems to think that bigger chips leads to smaller people. I personally cannot work it out as to why the big companies are not included.

The FSA is piloting a scheme to get your local chippy to make the chips bigger. This means they will have to buy new cutting machines and as they are mostly a one man band this will have serious repercussions for them financially. Interestingly the big outlets, MacDonalds, etc. are not included in this. Why that is I do not know as they are a bigger part of the obesity problem with their skinny chips.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink ... chips.html

Then we have the Traffic Light System of labelling on our foods.
The FSA has dropped the traffic light system under pressure from the food industry. It will now be optional and so we will not know at a glance if the foods are high in salt, high saturated fats or sugar. We will still have to take magnifying glasses with us to read the contents.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink ... ional.html
 
In all honesty, i have never bothered with the traffic lights anyway, lets be honest, you should have some idea of what will and wont be good for you, and since i started the LC way, I read almost every package I pick up
 
The Traffic Light System is for the general public, (diabetics do not have the luxury of special foods unless they are the ones that cause frequent trips to the loo) and I agree that diabetics need to look more closely at content. Surely it would be better for the general public, some who have limited knowledge about nutrition?
It is not all about diabetes as the chip saga shows. Putting the chip shops out of business when they sell a treat that most responsible non diabetics eat occasionally and letting big business carry on is, IMHO, wrong. It is surely a case of nanny state with the exemption of big food chains?

I purposely put this topic in General Chat as it affects the general public.
 
I agree Catherine - we tend to forget not everyone can read or even process the info - or speak english for that matter

for instance my son has Aspergers and a supermarket is a living hell for him - he could read and process the info in a flash at home but under the stress of shopping all that info would be overload and may as well be in martian- as yet he is only 14 but learning to be independent and the school and us have taught him the traffic light system its a great tool for him and I hope the powers that be decide to keep it!
 
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