In Victoria they plan on banning so-called junk food being available to kids in school. Meanwhile, Tony Abbott, Minister for Health in the Federal Government, resists any attempts to police advertising of junk foods during children's TV viewing times. Forget about preventative medicine! Abbott's argument [?] is that parents should "police" what their kids eat. As Four Corners suggested last year perhaps the "influence" of advertisers has something to do with the Federal Government's resistance to take steps to cut down obesity in children by at least limiting advertising of junk-foods during children's TV viewing times.
The Guardian, in the UK, on the topic of foods available to us all has this to report in an article entitled "World's top 25 food firms 'pathetic' in combating unhealthy diets":
"The world's top 25 food companies have not taken significant action to improve diets despite their claims, according to a report published today.
City University, London, has done an audit of the top 10 food manufacturers, top 10 food retailers and top five food service companies, comparing what they have done against the strategy agreed by the World Health Organisation to tackle obesity and other diet-related diseases. It finds that only a handful are acting on excess fat and sugar in the diet and only 10 are tackling salt levels."
Reading the full article [here] - and don't overlook the interesting table at the end of the piece - only serves to highlight that there is much spin around by manufacturers and purveyors of food but little real attempt to manufacture or serve healthy food.
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