Food should be regulated like tobacco

[wa3zrm]

The food industry should be regulated like the tobacco industry as obesity poses a greater global health risk than cigarettes, say international groups.
Consumers International and the World Obesity Federation are calling for the adoption of more stringent rules.
These could include pictures on food packaging of damage caused by obesity, similar to those on cigarette packets.
The new rules could include reducing the levels of salt, saturated fat and sugar in food, improving food served in hospitals and schools, imposing stricter advertising controls, and educating the public about healthy eating.
Artificial trans-fats should be removed from all food and drink products within five years, said the recommendations.
Advertising to children, during television programmes such as the X-Factor, must be restricted, said the organisations.
Governments could review food prices, introduce taxes, change licensing controls and start new research to make this happen, the report said.
Luke Upchurch at Consumers International said they were asking for the "same level of global treaty" as the tobacco industry faced.

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[piks101]

Since I feel salt and saturated fats are healthy I would not be too keen on that ....ahhh the nanny state.

[trebli]

We should have known it was coming. We give these nanny state do-gooders an inch and they take a mile.

[SunnyHours]

As if people weren't already "protected" enough by our dear Governments!
I'm tired of the Government always adding new laws to protect us (read: to control us).
We even have laws to keep you from hurting yourself. If someone wants to hurt themselves and not others, let them.
Live and let live they say.
Some employers now have the right to discriminate against smokers, and every nicotine users when it comes to employment...

To conclude here's a quote that I like very much and still applies today (more than ever maybe)
They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety - Benjamin Franklin

[alopezg1]

obesity does not pose a greater health risk than smoking as far as I know, if you swallow the statistics that is. If you do, then smoking causes more preventable deaths I believe in the UK than the preceding 5 put together- murder, alcohol, traffic accidents, heroin... if you believe the statistics that is

[spinyeel]

obesity does not pose a greater health risk than smoking as far as I know, if you swallow the statistics that is. If you do, then smoking causes more preventable deaths I believe in the UK than the preceding 5 put together- murder, alcohol, traffic accidents, heroin... if you believe the statistics that is

There is no such thing as a preventable death.