Healthy Fridays - Friday, March 31st
Posted by Sheryl Kirby in healthy fridays, news and media on March 30, 2007 at 2:13 pm
In The Star’s Health section today, Sally Squires writes that TV ads for food aimed at kids makes them fat. No offence to Sally Squires, but… d’uh! Turns out kids between the ages of 8 and 12 watch more than 51 hours of TV ads annually (that’s an hour a week!), and half of those ads are for food - mostly candy, snack food, cereal and fast food. And yeah, the ads themselves aren’t literally making the kids fat, but if they nag their parents to buy the stuff in the ads, that will certainly contribute to the overall problem.
Maybe if those kids had a more colourful diet - Nancy White interviews “nutrition guru” Sam Gracie about how a variety of colours on the plate can mean better health.
The Vice Squad looks at Chris & Tal’s Better Ground - a half beef, half soy mixture used in place of 100% ground beef. This is a good start product for anyone wanting to wean themselves off meat slowly and easily.
Susan Sampson cooks up some tea-scented sugar-free applesauce, but like so much “sugar-free” stuff, it uses artificial sweetener instead. Wouldn’t it be easier to just start with a sweet apple and omit the sweetener all together?
And Megan Oglivie examines the Big Healthy Soup Diet in Diet Decoder, and gets sick of making and eating soup “souper” fast.
