Red Light Slows Down High-calorie Foods From
Initiative of insurance and consumer centers / supermarket customers to help in product marking together with the consumer centres, which starts North and Central German IKK (numIKK) a campaign, which is likely a headache of the food industry. She want to track products containing fat, sugar, salt, and saturated fatty acids from nutrition experts with long-lasting enjoyment as unhealthy is branded. Education is the most important step to get the cost of the treatment of nutrition-related diseases in the handle”, as Achim sailors, Board of numIKK. Under the address traffic light calculator has the sickness fund a program installed, which every consumer can test his breakfast cereal, sausage from the fridge, the Granola bars or the favorite pizza. Entering turns red, the corresponding limit value is exceeded. I’m terrified about, that so many foods with a healthy image in this test to fail”, complains sailors. He is marked with the colors Traffic lights, desiring consumer advocates and health experts actually on each product package. But what is elsewhere already common, fail us at the opposition from the industry.
Even information on the contained quantities of certain ingredients are often hidden behind unrealistic portion sizes. Who wants to set up then, would have to cut off a piece of even some sausage before warm up. Show the manufacturer little responsibility, therefore the transfer of the values in the Internet computer can be difficult or even impossible. “The Board of Directors: then it must be his own thoughts when shopping, why the labels are missing.” For all other products, there is the traffic light check card for the wallet, which you can download from the next aisle in the grocery store under or under 01801-223356-1 local rate order by phone. Through newspapers, the Internet and their own health insurance magazine, the Fund wants to urge to log all foods with usable contents. Each Ute Bockmann, Sandra Karius which are responsible for the nutrition of the insured recommend you look in the refrigerator, if there are these values on his food and drink”. These values can then be sent via an online form and land in the fast-growing database of consumer centres. What is included and marked with the traffic light colours, can be found here or on the website of the numIKK.
So have a red light for sugar, including 31 of the 35 rated breakfast cereals! The initiators already reported the first success of the initiative some weeks ago. A leading manufacturer had decided voluntarily to label its frozen products with the paint. In the future, the blockade of the other companies should be bypassed through the product database. “Achim sailors: in addition to 37 million adults, already two million children are either overweight or obese.” The health insurance companies, surrounded every third Euro of occupied posts diet-related diseases to treat. Having a life is reduced because too little of their food and beverages consumers know we can no longer accept!” Press contact: Thomas Wiechert Guizettistrasse 1, 29221 Celle phone 05141.9285-85. Fax 05141.9285-132 brief description the numIKK is more than just a health insurance company with 140 employees, and about 58,000 insured. As innovative and service-oriented service provider, we advise our clients individually, understandable and unbureaucratic locally and from person to person. Visit us in the Internet:
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