We’re bombarded with more messages to eat healthier — cut back on salt, fat, and sugar — and more products help us do so. But restaurants, fast food chains and food manufacturers aren’t making it easy to eat smarter.
Large restaurant chains have started listing calorie counts alongside
their menu items, and fast food outlets now have salads next to the
burgers and fries. But the latest analysis of the slat, fat and calorie
counts on the most popular items we like to eat shows they aren’t much
healthier now than they were either years ago. Some products have become
less salty and lighter, but the pace of change, say the study’s
authors, is too slow to have a meaningful impact of the public’s health.
