It’s great to see that the Green light nutritional Guidelines that were required by McDonalds to operate at the Royal Childrens Hospital have been rolled out to all hospitals in Victoria.

All the bad stuff such as pies, deep fried food, sugary soft drinks, ice creams and pizza can now only represent 20% of the menu.
This makes common sense as hospitals should be seen as one of the pillars of healthy lifestyles not encouraging bad nutritional choices.

Unfortunately the rules will not be mandatory so food vendors have a reprieve until it is rolled out to all hospitals and made compulsory. Once again it comes down to whether the Health Minister Daniel Andrews is representing the interests of the general public or business.

Like many initiatives to combat the obesity and the diabetes epidemic, the hard decisions are never made, only a token gesture is adopted. Maybe having a voluntary nutritonal guideline is better than nothing.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 at 11:46 am by Andrew Talati and is filed under Nutrition.



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