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About 22 mln children in Europe are overweight
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by sweet east pearl | May 27, 2008 at 06:29 pm
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BRUSSELS, May 27 (Xinhua) -- Europe has almost 22 million overweight children, and a further 1.3 million will be overweight or obese by 2010, according to a report by the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety adopted on Tuesday.
The report called for an earlier start of measures to prevent obesity. Remedies include clearer food labeling, better food in schools and kindergartens, restrictions on advertising unhealthy food to children.
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at 21:18 on May 27th, 2008
sweet east pearl, I like this story. It's good stuff.
and they blame us Indians for food scarcity
at 04:21 on May 28th, 2008
sweet east pearl, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 04:22 on May 28th, 2008
It doesn't help if the Europeans import American Oreos!
at 04:47 on May 28th, 2008
It's strange- obesity is springing up so quickly in Europe, though American-style fast food has been present for decades. Beyond the food itself, there must be other factors at work. (Heartbreaking to see, even 13 years ago, the McDonald's at Piazza di Spagna in Rome packed with local teens- guys, you live in Rome! Find better food!)
at 05:58 on May 28th, 2008
The thing is even the salads are unhealthier than the burgers. Some of the fast food salads have chicken nuggets and the sauces are high in fat.. and of course, the corn on the cob is smothered with butter before you even buy it. It is a good job many McDonalds are closing down.
At restaurants or hotels, often there is no 'healthy option' either and even the vegetarian option has has heaps of fattening sauce. If you do want something healthy you would have to ring up the restaurant first to see if they can offer you something more suitable.
I don't think it helps with 'ready made' foods either stuffed with salt and fat.
In my town McDonalds has been around for ages and only in the last couple of years we now have Starbucks and Cafe Nero with all their muffins and cookies. Even my town has little healthy 'fast food choice' . We did have fantastic healthy genuine vegetarian restaurant that was healthy and nutritious. They had lots of meals with pasta, nuts and couscous but it closed down about 20 years ago. It was one place you could eat without feeling guilty! I think a lot of people do prefer something a little more tasty, after all we are only human.