Many people are just not aware of what is healthy and what is not healthy

In our daily Ukmedix News discussion we reckon that a new idea possibly to be introduced in New Zealand was a pretty damn good idea! The health authorities of New Zealand are considering putting a traffic light system on all foodstuffs that are sold in shops and supermarkets around the country. The system is simple; if food is unhealthy and full of fat, sugar and salt it will come with a red traffic light sticker, if the food is borderline unhealthy it will come with an amber traffic light sticker and food that is deemed to be good for you will get the green light sticker.

Many people are just not aware of what is healthy and what is not healthy for you and many foodstuffs that are found in supermarkets may look healthy but in fact are laden with unhealthy additives. This system will give a huge incentive to food manufacturers to produce healthy food so that they can get green stickers for all of their products and this should also slow down the sales of foodstuffs that are labelled with the red traffic lights stickers.

At present the proposal is not concrete but the New Zealand government said that if food manufacturing companies do not start to label very clearly exactly what is in the products that they manufacture they will be forced to enact new rules to protect the population. Like all developed countries around the world the problem of obesity is growing fast and they are especially concerned about the number of overweight and obese children in the country since the statistics now say that 30 percent fall into that category.

At Ukmedix News we know that lack of quality information about what food is good for you and what is unhealthy is one of the biggest problems facing people who go shopping for food and a clear system to identify nutritional facts would go a great way to helping people to lose weight.

Maybe the United Kingdom government should also consider the idea…