Some 'ignore food label schemes'
Food labelling could end up being ignored by a large number of shoppers, experts suggest.
A "significant" proportion did not take them into account when buying treats such as cakes, show early results from a Food Standards Agency-funded study.
Researchers said this was because shoppers knew they were bad for them but wanted to "indulge" themselves.
They also found a trend for ignoring them when buying supposedly basic essentials such as flour and butter.
Those surveyed said this was because these ingredients were needed and could not be avoided.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7641476.stm
Do you ignore labelling on food ? I know i do. I never even read them.
I buy whatever i want to buy, if i want a pint of milk i buy a pint of milk,
i dont look if it's half fat, low fat, no fat, pasturised or whatever, it's a pint
of milk to me and i drink it.
We've never bought into all this government health warnings crap.
Too much salt, not enough salt, too much of this not enough of that.
We eat what we want, when we want, basically eat a balanced diet but don't go out our way to to make it balanced.
Don't know if we are one hell of a "lucky" family, but none of us are overweight, all fit and healthy, hardly ever go to the doctors and if ever we go for health check ups we always get told " yep, no problems, see you in 6 months".
So are all the warnings and guidelines that people are given just a load of rubbish ?
I'm betting that there will be a difference of opinions here, older members will agree and remember when we ate lumps of coal and anything else we wanted with no harm done, younger members that go out and buy bottles of coke and tons of chocolate, takeaways, junk food that sort of agree, and the 20s - 30s
who check all the labels, go out their way to eat healthy, take regular vitamins/suppliments and go by all the government guidelines.
And i'm willing to bet that it is Americans that take more vitamins/iron/oils/suppliments etc than any other nation. ( god knows why ).
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