{"id":2099,"date":"2011-05-26T11:27:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T11:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/whos-responsible-for-nutrition-nearly-half-say-food-makers.html"},"modified":"2016-09-21T09:09:48","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T13:09:48","slug":"whos-responsible-for-nutrition-nearly-half-say-food-makers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2099","title":{"rendered":"Who’s responsible for nutrition? Nearly half say food makers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nearly half of people hold food manufacturers and processors responsible, according to a new survey.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Really? You mean the people who make Twinkies are responsible for making sure they are nutritious? You mean the people who pour out 600 calories of sugar in a Venti, Bucket-o-Caramel Macchiato are responsible for making that nutritious?<\/span><\/div>\n

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Dude, I hate to break this to you, but a nutritious Twinkie is an oxymoron. A healthy Caramel Macchiato lives over in the fiction section. <\/span><\/div>\n

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Do you need a rule?<\/span> <\/span><\/div>\n
How about this one? You buy junk food, you get junk food.  <\/span><\/div>\n<\/h4>\n
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The people who make food products are not here to make them nutritious. They are here to sell them to you. If it makes you buy more of them, they’ll grind up a multi-vitamin and put it in a box of Sugar Smacks or Fruit Loops, but that doesn’t make it an important part of a balanced breakfast. <\/span><\/div>\n
Food makers must “do no harm”, by making sure toxic things aren’t in your foods, but even that is not their responsibility, but that of the FDA.  <\/span><\/div>\n

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The survey also showed that <\/span>concerns about rising fuel and commodity costs are complicating decisions about healthy eating.<\/span><\/div>\n
The proportion of survey respondents saying they are \u2018very concerned\u2019 about healthy eating has dropped to 39 percent, from 45 percent last year \u2013 and although most (82 percent) hold themselves responsible for ensuring the nutritional value of their food, others are looking to food manufacturers (48 percent), government agencies (30 percent) and retailers (29 percent) to make sure the foods they eat are nutritious.<\/span><\/div>\n
Nevertheless, only 44 percent said they incorporate at least one healthy food into their diet.<\/span><\/div>\n
The FMI survey revealed that consumer confusion about nutrition labeling is a possible barrier to healthy eating. Although just 17 percent said they could use some help in understanding nutrition information labels, less than one-third (29 percent) said they consider themselves \u2018very knowledgeable\u2019 about nutritional information and nearly half (49 percent) said they were not expert in this area.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The FMI also found that as a result of relatively few high-profile recalls in 2011 and better technology for quick communication of food product recalls,<\/span>consumer confidence<\/a><\/span> in food safety is at its highest point in seven years. It found that 88 percent of consumers said they are \u2018completely\u2019 or \u2018somewhat\u2019 confident in the safety of the food sold at the supermarket.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The survey also found that men are much more likely to be comfortable with the safety of food imported from Latin America than women, at 76 percent and 58 percent respectively. Meanwhile, 97 percent of consumers said they were \u2018very\u2019 or \u2018somewhat\u2019 comfortable with the <\/span><\/p>\n

safety of food grown in the United States.<\/span><\/div>\n

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<\/span>Who’s responsible for nutrition? Nearly half say food makers<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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