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<blockquote data-quote="ROE100" data-source="post: 2408695" data-attributes="member: 11546"><p>I will not be signing, but appreciate the idea. Yes understand major chain can do this but you must always remember the values published are a guide, but as other have said for small business this is going to be difficult when you already have many hospitality places raising concerns in the UK about having to published the calories on the menu.</p><p></p><p>I also hate the traffic light system in the UK re the emphasis on sugar and on the labels you have to dig to found out the carbs which is often per 100g rather than per portion. Put this continues the issue T2 have my mums friend is a T2 and is constantly telling my mum she is doing well as she will have a pasta dish which only has a few g's of sugar becuase she has been told it is sugar she needs to cut out and carbs is something she doesn't need to consider. My mum has stop discussing this issue when i pointed the issue for T2 with standard NHS advice (i'm T1). So this lady will think this detail on a menu is no benfit to her. </p><p></p><p>I also think most people that are concern about carbs in their diet are often quite good to guage the total carbs so would this really help these people and the people that aren't bother then wouldn't be bother with the detail on the menu.</p><p></p><p>Another point to mention is what type of carb is it some of us need to act differently when eating pizza style, or high fat, slow release (of which some people still get spikes with slow release) so know just the carbs + cals (if they go that way) doesn't actual solve the issue that we are all different and carbs in our body so we all will still have to make guesses and judgements on the meal presented to us in a restuarant.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ROE100, post: 2408695, member: 11546"] I will not be signing, but appreciate the idea. Yes understand major chain can do this but you must always remember the values published are a guide, but as other have said for small business this is going to be difficult when you already have many hospitality places raising concerns in the UK about having to published the calories on the menu. I also hate the traffic light system in the UK re the emphasis on sugar and on the labels you have to dig to found out the carbs which is often per 100g rather than per portion. Put this continues the issue T2 have my mums friend is a T2 and is constantly telling my mum she is doing well as she will have a pasta dish which only has a few g's of sugar becuase she has been told it is sugar she needs to cut out and carbs is something she doesn't need to consider. My mum has stop discussing this issue when i pointed the issue for T2 with standard NHS advice (i'm T1). So this lady will think this detail on a menu is no benfit to her. I also think most people that are concern about carbs in their diet are often quite good to guage the total carbs so would this really help these people and the people that aren't bother then wouldn't be bother with the detail on the menu. Another point to mention is what type of carb is it some of us need to act differently when eating pizza style, or high fat, slow release (of which some people still get spikes with slow release) so know just the carbs + cals (if they go that way) doesn't actual solve the issue that we are all different and carbs in our body so we all will still have to make guesses and judgements on the meal presented to us in a restuarant. [/QUOTE]
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