Tag: daily-intake

Sanitarium onboard!

An ad in The Australian yesterday – ‘Sanitarium adds colour-coded food advice‘ made my day! It is encouraging to see a large food manufacturer take the plunge and go with the traffic-light labelling system.  I’m not saying for a moment that these guys do not produce salty and sugary products – but they are trying

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Apples for Apples? Not likely.

In an earlier post: ‘A whole lotta sugar’ I was struggling to find a consistent (and valid) reference to the Daily Intake recommendation/guide for Australians and by the end of the day had settled for one I found by the American Heart Association. Today I saw this ad on TV: and will now be using

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A whole lotta sugar!

You might not think you’re consuming a lot of sugar on a daily basis, but you can be sure that most of the processed foods you’ve eaten today could have many ‘hidden’ sugars. That’s not to say all sugars are bad for you.  Foods we consume that are made up of ‘naturally occurring sugars’ such

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