Wednesday, October 22, 2008

10 Things the Food Industry Doesn't Want You to Know

1. Junk food makers spend billions advertising unhealthy foods to kids.

2.
The studies that food producers support tend to minimize health concerns associated with their products.

3. Junk food
makers donate large sums of money to professional nutrition associations.

4. More processing means more profits, but typically makes the food less healthy.

5. Less-processed foods are generally more satiating than their highly processed counterparts.

6. Many supposedly healthy replacement foods are hardly healthier than the foods they replace.

7. A health claim on the label doesn't necessarily make a food healthy.

8. Food industry pressure has made nutritional guidelines confusing.

9. The food industry funds front groups that fight anti-obesity public health initiatives.

10. The food industry works aggressively to discredit its critics.


Source: 10 Things the Food Industry Doesn't Want You to Know

1 comment:

Mei said...

Heya hows it going Sophia! Read something that you might be interested in:

http://www.livingnow.com.au/2008/11/there-is-no-black-and-white-in-being-green/