Do you blindly believe that food labelled a "healthy" is really better for you?

Cantona's Collars · 10-01-2014 01:06PM #1

A woman in the UK decided to go for a healthier option to cut down on her kid's sugar intake,she found that the so-called healthy foods actually contained more sugar.

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The new Special K low fat oats ad is one that I particularly despise,bog standard porridge is about a healthy a breakfast you can eat yet somehow they try to convince us that their one with dried fruit is somehow lower in fat & sugar????

GrandSoftDay · 10-01-2014 01:09PM

Yes...I believe everything the add's tell me.

SV · 10-01-2014 01:10PM

Well if they're just going to go by sugar content then that's a bit silly.

10-01-2014 01:10PM

"Low fat" always means "high sugar". If it says low fat, run away screaming

Seriously, who thinks special k and cereal bars are good for ya

CardBordWindow · 10-01-2014 01:11PM

I am always highly suspicious of any diet foods. Normally lower fat means they've removed any 'healthy' fats and pumped up the saturates instead, but it's still lower total fat.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 10-01-2014 01:11PM

bluewolf wrote: »

Seriously, who thinks special k and cereal bars are good for ya

morons

humbert · 10-01-2014 01:11PM

Article summary: Fruit contains a lot of sugar.

10-01-2014 01:12PM

"Healthy" snacks are usually "low fat"
"low fat" usually means high sugar

When people get the idea out of their head that fats = bad then we might finally be on our way to tackling obesity.

Cienciano · 10-01-2014 01:12PM

A general rule is anything with the word "Kellogs" on it is bad for you

SV · 10-01-2014 01:13PM

bluewolf wrote: »

"Low fat" always means "high sugar". If it says low fat, run away screaming

Seriously, who thinks special k and cereal bars are good for ya

but the ad said that if I eat them I'll be a newer slimmer me.....

noodler · 10-01-2014 01:13PM

bluewolf wrote: »

"Low fat" always means "high sugar". If it says low fat, run away screaming

Seriously, who thinks special k and cereal bars are good for ya

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

morons

I am here to defend Special K!

I think its a bad example when it comes to cereal products as they do not generally contain huge amounts of fat.

Surely you would find Special K has less sugar than the average cereal?

kylith · 10-01-2014 01:14PM

Neither of those lists seem to contain any food that's actually cooked from scratch. Either diet is pretty piss poor for kids.

Daqster · 10-01-2014 01:15PM

Complete tosh and very misleading. Their new diet is healthier.

Total Sugars tells us very little as it is the quality of the sugar that is paramount.

The vast majority of the sugars in their old diet where from processed and refined sources (sucrose, white bread etc) and in their new diet, a lot of the sugar has been replaced with far healthier sugars that come in their natural form with lots of fiber, phytochemicals etc.

10-01-2014 01:15PM

noodler wrote: »

I am here to defend Special K!

I think its a bad example when it comes to cereal products as they do not generally contain huge amounts of fat.

Surely you would find Special K has less sugar than the average cereal?

Have you checked?

You'd be in for a surprise.

force eleven · 10-01-2014 01:16PM

White processed bread is never healthy. The flour is bleached to give it its whiteness. Bleached in all sorts of crap.

Artful_Badger · 10-01-2014 01:16PM

SV wrote: »

but the ad said that if I eat them I'll be a newer slimmer me.....

*A newer slimmer you will only be achieved in conjunction with a diet plan and exercise that makes it unnecessary to eat this product to begin with.

SV · 10-01-2014 01:18PM

Svlad Cjelli wrote: »

*A newer slimmer you will only be achieved in conjunction with a diet plan and exercise that makes it unnecessary to eat this product to begin with.

*as part of a calorie controlled diet

always makes me laugh, well yes..if you burn more calories than you take in then of course you'll lose weight :pac:

they're snacks, under the guise of healthy.

Temptamperu · 10-01-2014 01:19PM

Low fat crisps and chocolate make me laugh. Even diet drinks are ridiculous. If your dieting and eating sweets and drinking sodas you are not dieting.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 10-01-2014 01:20PM

special K is ****ing delicious though

and as with all cereals you never fill a bowl with their pissant tiny reccomended portion sizes

10-01-2014 01:20PM

noodler wrote: »

I am here to defend Special K!

I think its a bad example when it comes to cereal products as they do not generally contain huge amounts of fat.

Surely you would find Special K has less sugar than the average cereal?

I think if I want to eat a bowl of sugar, I will eat cereal. And maybe once in a blue moon I will because coco pops are tasty.
Afaik special k has more sugar than frosties

Eat some porridge or eggs

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

special K is ****ing delicious though

s

I don't even know you anymore

10-01-2014 01:21PM

Daqster wrote: »

Complete tosh and very misleading. Their new diet is healthier.

Total Sugars tells us very little as it is the quality of the sugar that is paramount.

The vast majority of the sugars in their old diet where from processed and refined sources (sucrose, white bread etc) and in their new diet, a lot of the sugar has been replaced with far healthier sugars that come in their natural form with lots of fiber, phytochemicals etc.

It may be healthier - but it's not healthy.

Toto Wolfcastle · 10-01-2014 01:22PM

There are a lot of misconceptions about
what healthy eating is. The low fat thing is a legacy, it's what we were always told growing up. The Safefood website still promotes the food pyramid, suggesting that people should eat plenty of starchy foods and very few fatty foods. Those who have educated themselves will know better, but not everyone will educate themselves.

In general people haven't a clue what's good for them and what's not good for them. I was at a course for newly diagnosed diabetics (with my husband who had just been diagnosed) and a woman there said that after she was diagnosed she started drinking Lucozade as a health drink.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 10-01-2014 01:22PM

bluewolf wrote: »

I don't even know you anymore

wat, it is lovely tasting and the more of it I eat the closer I get to my goal of fitting into my new red dress

Duggy747 · 10-01-2014 01:27PM

I only eat cereal grown in the African forests of China, handpicked by Indian farmers, with milk-free milk gluten-free soya, flower extract, sugar.

Gongoozler · 10-01-2014 01:29PM

People are stupid. Of course lots of people believe this ****, that's why they do it. How many people ever think to check the salt content of anything? There are ads out now about not giving children juice because of the sugar content. Facepalm. People really need a proper education on nutrition.

topper75 · 10-01-2014 01:33PM

If it ran around, swam, or grew on a plant, then it is food.

Everything else is processed junk.

Clue - nobody is paid to pick Special K off a plant.

kylith · 10-01-2014 01:36PM

Gongoozler wrote: »

People are stupid. Of course lots of people believe this ****, that's why they do it. How many people ever think to check the salt content of anything? There are ads out now about not giving children juice because of the sugar content. Facepalm. People really need a proper education on nutrition.

Those ads drive me nuts. How many parents are thinking "My child won't drink water. I'll give them this sugar-free coke instead."

10-01-2014 01:37PM

Jesus I love cereal. Fcuk you sugar. Fcuk you right in the eye.

y0ssar1an22 · 10-01-2014 01:38PM

Surly levels of fat and sugar should be secondary to the amount of calories per 100g or whatever? Eat less calories than you burn = lose weight. Does it matter where the calories come from as long as you burn more than you eat?

dee_mc · 10-01-2014 01:42PM

Special K contains 17% sugar, and more than 1.1g salt per 100g.
There's a good study here (Which/NHS) giving a rundown of sugar, salt and fat levels in popular cereals: http://www.nhs.uk/news/2012/02February/Pages/breakfast-cereals-still-too-high-in-sugar.aspx
I've always found Special K's 'low fat cereal' advertising strategy laughable, but so many people are sucked in by it!
Shredded Wheat and Weetabix seem to be the purest cereals out there, although even Weetabix has relatively high salt levels.

Anyone · 10-01-2014 01:43PM

I'd love a bowl of Sugar Puffs with ice cold milk right now.

Do you blindly believe that food labelled a "healthy" is really better for you?

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