Doughnuts are healthy -it's official!

[housesparrow]

well, we all know that, don't we?



Companies will be able to claim custard tarts, sausage rolls and even doughnuts are healthy foods under a European crackdown on junkfood advertising, campaigners complained yesterday.


All three fatty foods would pass proposed European Commission thresholds for products which can be marketed as healthy or nutritious, according to Cancer Research, the National Heart Foundation and Which?. They demanded the Health Secretary Alan Milburn oppose the crackdown, which they warned would weaken the fight against obesity.

When the Health Claims Regulation was passed three years ago, the EC said: "Only products offering genuine health or nutritional benefits will be allowed to refer to them on their labels." However the new definitions of unhealthy food announced by Brussels were far weaker than the nutrient profiling model developed by the Food Standards Agency. All of the EC's thresholds for categories such as biscuits, meat-based products and breakfast cereals would be given amber or red signs under the FSA's traffic light labelling scheme.

Which? blamed EU states protecting such traditional food as salty German bread for diluting the legislation.

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[Patrick]

Only the EU could come up with designated foodstuffs! It's like the argument over whether a jaffa cake was a cake or a biscuit in a fight over taxation regulation!

McDonald's will love it!

[Alpha Hooligan]

I've always known that doughnuts were good for you.

As for Jaffas...tasty little cakes in a box.


AH

[Patrick]

Apr 26, 2009 22:01:32 GMT Alpha Hooligan said:

I've always known that doughnuts were good for you.

As for Jaffas...tasty little cakes in a box.


AH

I used to have a doughnut a day when I was at school! Pop down at lunchtime (this was before I got a crush on Lemonade Sparkles) and you could buy a ring doughnut for 10p and a jam doughnut for 12p back in 1983.

........and I'm still slim svelte and beautiful (well, apart from the beer belly but I inherited that from me Dad!)

[Alpha Hooligan]

When I used to get the ferry to work in L/Pool, there was a proper stall on the other side, fresh hot D's made in front of you, I'd usually grab a bag full on the way home...happy days.


AH

[Patrick]

'Course, go down to Hastings and it wad 5 or 10 for 50p freshly made and sugarred!

Damn - I haven't had any custard for ages and it's beginning to get to me!

[Alpha Hooligan]

As a custard connoisseur, what's your position on "egg custards" and "custard slices"?

(that doughnut place you mention sounds like the stall I used to go to....the lovely smell of fresh hot D's drew me in every time...by the time I got home, my nice smart suit would be covered in sugar).


AH

[housesparrow]

The problem with doughnuts and the like is that people eat them as snacks. They are of course meal replacement foods for those times when you don't fancy a sandwich and want an instant energy boost.

My lunch usually comprised such stuff when I was working out of the office all day. I eat less of those things now and have put on a couple of pounds - though that might be just because life is more peaceful!

I know this is a shocking and non PC idea but I read a new theory that people who crave starch shouldn't try swapping to salads instead because it won't work - they will still "need" doughnuts and their ilk.

So eat and enjoy.

[rjpageuk]

The whole idea that some foods are good for you and some bad for you is just completely broken in the first place.

The things most of us have too much of (fat/sugar/salt) are vital parts of our diet and so things that contain a lot of these are good for you up until the point you have too much of them.

In order words eat in moderation and you are fine.

[Patrick]

Apr 29, 2009 11:10:26 GMT rjpageuk said:

The whole idea that some foods are good for you and some bad for you is just completely broken in the first place.

The things most of us have too much of (fat/sugar/salt) are vital parts of our diet and so things that contain a lot of these are good for you up until the point you have too much of them.

In order words eat in moderation and you are fine.

An example of this is the necessity to drink (what is it?) 4 or 5 litres of water a day, which many people went for at one point. We absorb a lot of water through "solid" food anyway so the actual figure isn't really accurate.