With the food traffic light against Fettleibigkeit and predominance

(openPR) - Great Britain is after statistics of the OECD the country in Europe with most citizens, who suffer from predominance and adiposity. About each fourth Britisher exhibited a Body measure index (characteristic number from body size and weight) of over 30 in the year 2004. Those are less than for instance in the USA (31%), but clearly more than in France (10%) or the Netherlands (11%). And even the Germans stand here still with 13% for fettleibigen citizens quite well there.

The visible consequences of Junk Food and Coke, too little sport and movement are nearly still dramatic with English children. The number of over-weighty English school children doubled itself in the last 20 years, today has each third English school child predominance. But the English public health policy was and is not not dormant. Starting from 2001 it was permitted to the responsible school lines to serve with low fat and healthy meals free of charge in the schools. But there were problems: Not all training took part in, not all pupils made of it use, and many schools made now competition McDonalds or Fish and Ships shops and offered at school rather unhealthy meals. End of 2005 too fat-rich, to salt or zuckerhaltige food, was then forbidden both and to a component of school meals like also and products in vending machines.

In the past year now the English government authority “Food standard Agency” wanted to introduce an information system, which already teaches to children, in addition, adults in a simple manner, who food and beverages are healthy and which not. The food traffic light was introduced. A thick red point on many food signals already that a product particularly contains much fat, sugar or salt and therefore not particularly healthy. If the Punk is yellow, still little caution is appropriate. Only when the light is green one can zulangen with good conscience. With a large werbekampagne the authority made attentive to the system, and in many 10-second advertising spots of the Food standard Agency one can since that time on the English television a merry line male over the letters of the word “FOOD” hopping see and listen, how it thereby the three markings “high - medium - low” (highly - means - low) proclaims.

The guideline assistance pleases most consumers. A questioning of 18.000 parents resulted in that over 80% endorse the new food marking. But altogether 21 enterprises of the food industry and three large supermarket chains refused attaching the points also on products in their shelves.

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