It’s late, you’ve had a hard day at work and you want some tasty food fast - no wonder takeaway meals are so popular. On average, Australians spend 10% of their food budget on takeaways.
So CHOICE took a look at the nutritional composition of a range of popular takeaway meals:
Chinese
Thai
Italian
The same meal cooked by different restaurants [...]
Read More..>>The government is set to make a decision on what it will do to protect children from the unhealthy influence of junk food marketing and we want to give Australians the opportunity to tell the Health Minister that they support a ban on junk food ads when children are watching TV.
Children are exposed to around [...]
Brock H Leach is the former chief innovation officer at PepsiCo and a member of PepsiCo’s Blue Ribbon Advisory Board on Health and Wellness. As such, he brings an interesting perspective to the discussion of corporate accountability and consumer action when it comes to the obesity pandemic. In order to come up with solutions to [...]
Read More..>>You can view speaker presentations, video interviews with delegates and speakers and congress photos online at the following places. We will be uploading speaker papers where there was no presentation as soon as we can get copies. We hope to upload audio files of all sessions in the near future. In the next few days [...]
Read More..>>A flowchart illustrating all the causes of obesity resembles the scrawling of an excited child.
“It’s absolutely accurate”, obesity expert Boyd Swinburn assures, “Because most things surrounding this global epidemic are interconnected.”
The illustration also brings home an important point – just because we know the determinants of a problem doesn’t mean it will lead us [...]
The 18th Consumers International World Congress is already making headlines in Australia and overseas. Junk food marketing was the big story of the day:
Consumer groups push for tighter junk food restrictions – ABC
Bad products to be named and shamed – The Age
Push to ban soft drink ads for young – SMH
Irresponsible companies in firing line [...]
The term “epidemic” is often used to describe the growing problem of childhood obesity. But did you know that nearly 22 million children are overweight or obese? If that’s not alarming enough, experts say the figure is tipped to be rising.
While corporations continue to profit, and the fast food industry continues to expand, what [...]
One of the fringe events on Monday 29 October will be about food marketing to children. There’ll be presentations by a number of consumer advocates from India, the UK and the USA, as well as Clare Hughes, CHOICE’s own Senior Food Policy Officer.
With the rising concern over childhood obesity in many parts of the world, [...]
Holding Corporations to Account is the theme of the 18th Consumers International World Congress, co-hosted by CHOICE, which will be held over three days in Sydney from 29 October to 1 November 2007.Consumers International (CI) is the global federation of consumer groups dedicated to the protection and promotion of consumers’ rights worldwide. It currently represents [...]
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