Rethink for calorie eating levels

[4me2]

Rethink for calorie eating levels


Labels give information on how many calories the food contains

The calorie counts used as the foundation for diet plans and healthy-eating guidance for the past 18 years may be wrong, a report suggests. The recommended daily intake of calories could be increased by up to 16%, a draft report by the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition said.
Intake levels are currently 2,000 calories for women and 2,500 for men.
But the panel stresses that people should only eat more if they exercise more, given rising levels of obesity.
The committee says its report provides a much more accurate assessment of how energy can be burnt off through physical activity.
A 16% increase would mean that adults could safely consume an extra 400 calories a day, equivalent to an average sized cheeseburger.
The proposals, seen by The Times and The Grocer magazine, are due to go out a 14-week consultation period.
Final recommendations will then be made after that time.
Health campaigners say the Department of Health and the Food Standards Agency could seek to "sweep this report under the carpet" in a bid to avoid sending out mixed messages in the middle of an obesity epidemic.
Tam Fry, of the National Obesity Forum, said it was a "dangerous assumption" to say that adults could safely consume an extra 400 calories a day.
"This is not a green light to eat yourself silly," he said.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8360136.stm




This just sounds like bollox to me aimed getting people to buy more food and drive sales up.

It wouldn't surprise me in the least if the people behind the financing of these claims have a vested interest in seeing more fat people. Maybe thast way they can sell more medical products to treat them ?

[koola2]

people should only eat more if they exercise more

The phrase "No Shit Sherlock" comes to mind

[super mike]

The calorie counts used as the foundation for diet plans and healthy-eating guidance for the past 18 years may be wrong, a report suggests.
But the panel stresses that people should only eat more if they exercise more, given rising levels of obesity.

Well done cuntsocks. The same thing that people have been doing to regulate their weight for thousands of years might be right and some arbitrary numbers on a packet has little bearing on anything.

This just sounds like bollox to me aimed getting people to buy more food and drive sales up.

Not really, sounds to me like someone with some common sense has infiltrated this government thinktank.

[flumperino]

This is crazy talk. A nation of fatties, and they release a story saying people can eat more.

A really clever way to help the nation's growing obesity problem

[4me2]

Well done cuntsocks. The same thing that people have been doing to regulate their weight for thousands of years might be right and some arbitrary numbers on a packet has little bearing on anything.


Not really, sounds to me like someone with some common sense has infiltrated this government thinktank.

last time someone did that he got sacked, David Nutt his name was.

[super mike]

last time someone did that he got sacked, David Nutt his name was.

I reckon this guy must have been wearing a mask, it'll confuse the gubberment for months and all this will have blown over.