03 March 2005

Calories in chocolate?- read the wrapper

"Every bar of chocolate, packet of pasta, breakfast cereal and yoghurt produced by the world's biggest food group will carry the calorie information. " I applaud this in our heading-towards-obesity society. However, you know what would be even more useful? If they told us the meaning of the colorie count in activity terms -"twenty minutes brisk walk", "Two-hours jogging", "Climbing ten flights of stairs" and so on; then we'd really know what we'd need to do to make our treats fat-neutral.

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