Food Firms Trim Trillions Of Calories From Packaged Treats - Polidicks

[URL="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/01/09/261050610/food-firms-trim-trillions-of-calories-from-packaged-snacks"]NPR Story[/URL] [quote=NPR]But could cutting out 78 calories each day really make a difference in your waistline or in the obesity problem in the U.S.? "The range of calories that we need to stop obesity is about 130 to 170, approximately, per person per day," says Kathryn Thomas of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a nonprofit that funded the study. "If these companies are helping to take out 78 calories per day, that's an important contribution toward reaching the goal." But the findings aren't that clear-cut. The study looked only at sales of packaged foods and beverages. It's still unknown how this translates to calories consumed by Americans, especially given that about 40 percent of all food in the U.S. is wasted. Also, the study didn't consider food eaten in restaurants, where Americans get about a third of their calories. Back in 2010, 16 of the nation's major food companies pledged to remove 1 trillion calories from their products in grocery stores by 2012, and 1.5 trillion calories by 2015. To reach that goal, the corporations — which produce a third of all packaged foods sold in the U.S. — started selling smaller portion sizes and introducing low-calorie versions of their snacks and beverages.[/quote]

[QUOTE]started selling smaller portion sizes[/QUOTE] Oh yeah, I know that. But they sell still at the same prize.

[QUOTE=commander204;43488371]Oh yeah, I know that. But they sell still at the same prize.[/QUOTE] You mean for actually [I]higher[/I] price because it's ~NEW EDITION~ and shit.

Doesn't stop us from eating it.

Problem is, i see a smaller portion.... i just buy two x.x

Good job, that's what they want you to do.

That's very smart, make smaller portions, meaning less calories! same price, people will still buy more and more, they profit and people still get fat. People that get fat need to get responsibility, don't want to get fat? don't eat the entire chocolate box

[QUOTE=Xmeagol;43488829]People that get fat need to get responsibility, don't want to get fat? don't eat the entire chocolate box[/QUOTE] I don't even know how people could eat an entire chocolate box. I usually feel sorta sick after a few pieces of chocolate.

[QUOTE=Zareox7;43489105]I don't even know how people could eat an entire chocolate box. I usually feel sorta sick after a few pieces of chocolate.[/QUOTE] Strength, willpower and determination.

[QUOTE=Zareox7;43489105]I don't even know how people could eat an entire chocolate box. I usually feel sorta sick after a few pieces of chocolate.[/QUOTE] I don't even know how you get fat in the first place. I eat sweets & snacks aswell as drink soda & energy drinks pretty regurarly and I'm still auschwitz mode.

[QUOTE=Coffee;43489225]Strength, willpower and determination.[/QUOTE] Exactly the things you need to lose weight!

[QUOTE=spanaren;43489389]I don't even know how you get fat in the first place. I eat sweets & snacks aswell as drink soda & energy drinks pretty regurarly and I'm still auschwitz mode.[/QUOTE] That doesn't make you better fit than a visibly fat person, unfortunately.

[QUOTE=spanaren;43489389]I don't even know how you get fat in the first place. I eat sweets & snacks aswell as drink soda & energy drinks pretty regurarly and I'm still auschwitz mode.[/QUOTE] Beer Belly lad.

[QUOTE=spanaren;43489389]I don't even know how you get fat in the first place. I eat sweets & snacks aswell as drink soda & energy drinks pretty regurarly and I'm still auschwitz mode.[/QUOTE] I would bet you are under 30.

[QUOTE=commander204;43488371]Oh yeah, I know that. But they sell still at the same prize.[/QUOTE] I was [I]pissed off[/I] when I opened a Reese's and the cup was nearly 1/3rd the size of what they used to be. When other people's weight starts affecting everyone's lives, there's something seriously wrong with our society.

Smaller portions isn't the issue. There's been a war on salt for ages, when the real target should have been sugar. There's too much sugar in everything.

If they're gonna cut portions, they better damn well cut prices. Every year it seems like the amount you get for whatever you buy, whether it's a TV Dinner, cereal, snacks, or god damn orange juice, is slowly decreasing while the price stays the same or even goes up. This isn't going to do shit. People are just going to buy more products to make up for the loss in size and calories. All it's doing is giving food companies extra cash for doing jack shit, like soda or bottled water taxes, since few people recycle due to the necessity to separate various materials and the need to bring the garbage to a recycling center or machine to get the cash back (like being healthy, it's important to recycle, but this is not the way to encourage this behavior). Some people just plain don't want to be healthy. Either through laziness, lifestyle, costs, lack of education, medical conditions, etc. people are going to be unhealthy. If you want to make people healthy, you need to teach them while they're young, make healthy foods cheaper, and somehow encourage healthy living in other ways (other than being thin and knowing you might live longer, there's no "visible benefit" to the average person, so it's going to take a lot of determination and training to get people to get healthy and a lot of people don't really care enough or have the willpower to make such a radical change)

[QUOTE=Alxnotorious;43490095]I was [I]pissed off[/I] when I opened a Reese's and the cup was nearly 1/3rd the size of what they used to be. When other people's weight starts affecting everyone's lives, there's something seriously wrong with our society.[/QUOTE] Reese's haven't changed size., were you eating the mini ones?

Won't work. If you make the serving size smaller people will just eat more servings.

[QUOTE=Memobot;43490101]Smaller portions isn't the issue. There's been a war on salt for ages, when the real target should have been sugar. There's too much sugar in everything.[/QUOTE] I cant agree with this enough. everything needs to be so disgustingly sweet no wonder everyone is fat and has diabetes.

[QUOTE=spanaren;43489389]I don't even know how you get fat in the first place. I eat sweets & snacks aswell as drink soda & energy drinks pretty regurarly and I'm still auschwitz mode.[/QUOTE] You're blessed with a high metabolism.

[QUOTE=Xmeagol;43488829]That's very smart, make smaller portions, meaning less calories! same price, people will still buy more and more, they profit and people still get fat. People that get fat need to get responsibility, don't want to get fat? don't eat the entire chocolate box[/QUOTE] Life is like a box of chocolates the more you eat the shorter it gets

solution: stop putting corn syrup in everything it fucks up people's metabolisms