our children are "drinking" 5 LITRES of oil!!
Over half the children in UK are "drinking" 5 litres of oil every year!!
Over half the children in The United Kingdom are "drinking" nearly 5 litres of cooking oil every year due to their crisp eating habits; one in four have confessed to eating more than two packets of crisps per day. This would give them a grand total of 9 litres of oil per year.
Today The British Heart Foundation has launched its Food4Thought campaign. This campaign will help expose the hidden salts, sugars and fats that are in our common every day foods. This should help children figure out how they are damaging their health with their eating habits.
As part of the Food4Thought campaign, the British Heart Foundation is calling for a ban on the marketing of junk food products for children and for their cooking skills to be a compulsory part of schooling across all of the United Kingdom.
Teaching resources in the shape of over sized burger boxes will be sent to 2,500 schools to help teachers educate pupils on the perils of unhealthy eating.
Professor Peter Weissberg, the medical directer of the British Heart Foundation said:
"We believe having a daily dosage of such high-fat nutritionally poor product is a threat to childrens long term health.
"Daily unhealthy snacking is a worrying habit. Rising rates of childhood obesity and cases of Type two diabetes paint a partculary grim picture for the future.
" This campaign is about challenging our children, alerting them to what's lurking in their snacks, takeaways, and ready meals. it's about making these foods the exception rather than the rule."
Here are a few facts:
- In a typical 35 gram of a packet of crisps, there are around two Teaspoons of oil found in it.
- In a larger 50 gram packet of crisps, there is around three and a half teaspoons of oil found it it.
- Also, according to an official survay which was done earlier this year, alomost three quarters of mothers had fed their children ready made meals or takeaways more than three times a week!!
- figures from a new mintel report showed that the United Kingdom snackers ate their way through nearly over a tonne of crisps every three minutes!! thats almost enough to fill a telephone box every forty-five seconds!
Today The British Heart Foundation has launched its Food4Thought campaign. This campaign will help expose the hidden salts, sugars and fats that are in our common every day foods. This should help children figure out how they are damaging their health with their eating habits.
As part of the Food4Thought campaign, the British Heart Foundation is calling for a ban on the marketing of junk food products for children and for their cooking skills to be a compulsory part of schooling across all of the United Kingdom.
Teaching resources in the shape of over sized burger boxes will be sent to 2,500 schools to help teachers educate pupils on the perils of unhealthy eating.
Professor Peter Weissberg, the medical directer of the British Heart Foundation said:
"We believe having a daily dosage of such high-fat nutritionally poor product is a threat to childrens long term health.
"Daily unhealthy snacking is a worrying habit. Rising rates of childhood obesity and cases of Type two diabetes paint a partculary grim picture for the future.
" This campaign is about challenging our children, alerting them to what's lurking in their snacks, takeaways, and ready meals. it's about making these foods the exception rather than the rule."
Here are a few facts:
- In a typical 35 gram of a packet of crisps, there are around two Teaspoons of oil found in it.
- In a larger 50 gram packet of crisps, there is around three and a half teaspoons of oil found it it.
- Also, according to an official survay which was done earlier this year, alomost three quarters of mothers had fed their children ready made meals or takeaways more than three times a week!!
- figures from a new mintel report showed that the United Kingdom snackers ate their way through nearly over a tonne of crisps every three minutes!! thats almost enough to fill a telephone box every forty-five seconds!