The Qld Government bans ads for jung food on sites they own.
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Lipstick on a pig, what does advertising on a limited number of sites have to do with childhood obesity? How many millions will this cost to implement and monitor? And why doesn’t the ban apply to sporting venues? They claim it’s because contracts are complicated.
This won’t apply to Brisbane City council buses either or any of the other privately owned vehicles used for public transport so it really only applies to 2000 billboards, trains and that’s about it.
What about the parental role? The lack of exercise (which is partially a government issue)? Or all the other factors like family and parents spending so much time working and commuting?
Why not ban alcohol and gambling advertising? This ban will do nothing and it’s clearly the best our politicians can do instead of tacking the real issues.
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Yet foods high in sugar (ice blocks, fruit drinks, flavoured milk etc) and high in (saturated) fats and salt (packet chips, processed foods, pies, chicken nuggets etc) can still be sold at the school tuckshops. I wonder if a ban on advertising would have tge same effect as banning inappropriate or unhealthy foods at tuckshops.
It appears to be political spin exercise rather than contributing to a real solution.
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The 2018 Deakin University rates 11 fast food brands on health ratings.
Who would have thought that Macca’s would be the second best?
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As they offer salads and “grilled” meat (mostly chicken) as well as the standard burgers and deep fried foods and offer swapping out chips and soft drinks with water and salad they probably should score higher than some would suspect. The problem is that it requires a person to choose to swap or to choose a salad meal rather than the fast and easy worse choices. If it was reversed ie they came standard with salad and water but you had to request the chips and soft drinks this would most likely increase their ranking. The next step would be to get the public to accept the healthier choices as the default, a much harder task I suspect.
Most of the others do not provide these healthier choices as a standard. KFC has a swap choice as does Oporto and Nandos. Hungry Jacks used to have a policy of not charging for extra salad on their burgers but they now do charge (a retrograde step in my opinion) and they do not offer side salads or in reality any salad as replacement for chips. At Hungry Jacks you can request to have the burger as No Bun (“NB” appears in the selection) and they will supply it in a container but most people don’t know about this or they don’t want it made that way. Heavy doses of sauces, high fat content, high sugar content, high salt, and excessive kilojoules in most items for all the fast food businesses is why they all do not come close enough to really being caring about health issues. I think this is why Subway probably leads the lot because they do include the salad as a main component of most of their choices rather than chips.
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It appears that Maccas is the least unhealthy national chain junk food.
What a surprise.
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