On Food Purveyors

[Zeppelin795]

[quote]SexMachine wrote:

[quote]Zeppelin795 wrote:

[quote]SexMachine wrote:

[quote]Zeppelin795 wrote:

Are the studies that unveil this practice interpreted by the government?
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There are some scientists who say those studies are nonsense. The government would have to choose which scientists to take advice from. Like when they took advice from nutritionists about the food pyramid and began to promote it. That’s a major problem no? Is the government fit to make decisions like that?

Do you believe that food purveyors ought to police themselves? [/quote]

I’ve already answered this. A free press can disseminate information about these studies. It already does, and it’s how you became aware of them.[/quote]

Where are the studies by these “scientists” who says this is non-sense?

This goes beyond a few printed studies that show what is being done to the food and the responsibility ought to rest on the shoulders of the producers. It is far beyond “a free press”.

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Author :

Travis Saunders completed his BSc (Hon) in Kinesiology at the University of Calgary, where he was awarded the Gold Medal for the highest academic proficiency in his class. His MSc was performed at Queenâ??s University, and focused on the inter-relationships between physical activity, body fat distribution, and health risk in adults. His PhD studies were completed in the fall of 2013, and focused on the relationship between sedentary behaviour and metabolic risk in children and youth. In late 2013 Travis began post doctoral fellowship at Dalhousie University examining the relationship between sedentary behaviour and health among patients with chronic diseases (cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and cancer).

Throughout his graduate training, Travis has been supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Canadian Diabetes Association. He was also the inaugural recipient of the University of Ottawa Teaching Assistant Excellence Award. His post doctoral fellowship is supported by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada.

Travis is a Certified Exercise Physiologist, and a member of the Sedentary Behaviour Research Network, the Canadian Obesity Network, the American College of Sports Medicine and the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology. He is also a former Content Editor at ResearchBlogging.org.[/quote]

Read the article and it is not a study refuting what I have posted, in fact if you dig deeper it helps make my point.

Who knows why the government promoted the food pyramid? It certainly wasn’t based on science as the food addiction studies are. This doesn’t mean food purveyors ought to be able to exploit this because people think the government always incompetent. So your solution is do nothing?

In addition it should not be up to the consumer to find out this info. If you want to sell your product then you need to be truthful and if the market rejects your product then your business model simply doesn’t work.