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I have three major comments about this. First, most countries use a lot of public transportation, which often requires walking roughly a mile to and again from
by tabtab 6y ago
I have three major comments about this. First, most countries use a lot of public transportation, which often requires walking roughly a mile to and again from work and commerce centers. This "forces" them to get regular exercise. Our car culture cuts into that.
Second, we need better food labeling. "Serving size" is too arbitrary. Instead use ratios: ratio per N calories, and ratio per weight. That way we can easily compare across product types. It can be worded as "X units per N calories" and "X units per gram", or the like. The units would be standardized.
Third, include percent of whole-ness of grain. It's hard to know otherwise. We need to eat more whole grains, but 100% is not very tasty to most such that a mix is decent compromise. But we need better numbers to know the mix percent.
- angio 6y ago> Second, we need better food labeling. "Server size" is too arbitrary. Instead use ratios: ratio per N calories, and ratio per weight. That way we can easily compare across product types. It can be worded as "X units per N calories" and "X units per gram", or the like. In Europe labels need to have nutritional information using standard units (e.g. 100g or 100ml). It seems very odd they don't require that in the US too.
- thinkharderdev 6y agoThe whole "serving size" thing borders on absurdity sometimes. I picked up a bag of granola the other day which is "only" 110 calories per serving, but a relatively small bag is somehow 15 servings. For me, using what I would consider a normal cereal bowl (not some freakishly large serving dish or anything) gets me 3-4 "servings." Who the hell is eating 1/2 a cup of cereal at a time!?