Jamie's sugar rush

[lastqueenofscotland]

Anyone be watching tonight?
I'm really looking forwards :)

I love blood orange San Pelegríno

They are talking about free sugar here though is that correct? So added stuff not natural stuff from potatoes etc? 7tsp of added (or free) sugar per day.

I find this director that Jamie is talking to quite a scarily uninformed man .... Fat is NOT bad for you ...

my dc only have a fizzy drink on the very rare occasion we go to the pub

BIWI you are spot on and it infuriates me that this is never mentioned when sugar and health is talked about.

Hadn't heard about this show. Will watch next week.

I do find him rather irritating but I felt his intentions were excellent when he attacked school dinners. Even if it ended up backfiring in some ways as school dinners still aren't great.

Yes lucjam, they're on about free sugars, so added and hidden sugars rather than natural ones from carbs. I rewound the bit where JO and the nutritionist were looking at the sugar in a day's worth of food and she said that 4g of sugar equates to approx 1 teaspoon. I'm going to remember that to help me work it out from now on. The amputations bit was awful .

the boy who lost his teeth drank sugary drinks, not fizzy drinks. That is squash, fresh fruit juice and flavoured waters etc.

The sugar they are trying to cut out is the added sugar.

That stir fry with 20 spoonfuls of added sugar in a tiny pot of stir fry sauce shocked me. I do use those sauces, always think it is only a small amount compared to lovely healthy veg etc.

also shocking was bran flakes plus yoghurt plus fruit has 14 spoons of added sugar.

Thanks soft so are we looking at "carbs of which sugar"? So say packet says "Carbs 20g" "of which sugars 12g" - therefore that serving will contain 3 tsp?

Imagine having fizzy drinks but no clean water.

Always reminded me of something my grandma did when I felt the world was against me- took me to the kitchen and made me turn on the hot and cold tap and pointed out I can chose the temperature of my clean safe water. We forget how lucky we are. :(

I think so luc, yes. I popped to the kitchen during the ad break and looked at a few cupboard items and that's how I read it.

I've been meaning to cut down on sugar and carbs. This programme has combinced me.

Coca Cola should be ashamed of themselves.

this is just like Victorian Britain, water isn't safe so you drink beer.

i love blood orange San Pelegríno

I didn't watch it. I can only assume that SP is going to kill me.

So today I let DS have a "vitamin water". I wouldn't let him have coke. This is a link to the nutritional values, if I'm reading it correctly I may as well have let him have coke!! FFS!!!!! Arghhhhhh. Water from now on!

vitaminwater.com/files/vitaminwater_2014_NutritionFacts.pdf

31g of which sugars for the whole bottle (he drank the whole thing) - so almost 8 tsp of sugar.

Coke has 35g sugar in a 330ml can. So I really did him no favours he may as well had the coke.

I don't understand taxing the consumer 20p for a sugary drink. Most people will pay it.
If they're serious then how about taxing the manufacturers with big hefty taxes? They might start cleaning themselves up and reducing sugar in their products.

I do think a move like we took with tobacco should be in place. Esp in the states the power they levy is amazing. Watch "fed up" it's on YouTube and so so shocking.

Wonder if JO will send the additional revenue from his restaurants' sugar tax to some kind of charity? A charity for diabetes, or similar?

would be good of it said on the front of all packets, 1 serving = x tsp of added sugar. That would make people stop and think, they need to make it simple.

Jamie teaching his ds to make marshmallow Pavlovian.

I don't mind so much about drinks. To me it is obvious that coke/fanta/lemonade etc has sugar.

I get really upset by the food that has added sugar. Why add sugar to cereal? To tomato soup? To bread?

I love Jamie Oliver! He's someone who's tried to use his celebrity for good. over ten years I did a low carb diet in the days when people sneered at it. I lost so much weight eating all the things we had always been told would make you fat, butter, cream, red meat, avocados, nuts etc that it really shocked me and made me think that the advice we had always been given was wrong, that fat wasn't the culprit, but sugar was. I got used to reading the carb content of foods in the supermarkets and was shocked at how much hidden sugar there was in everyday products, especially ready meals. Don't think taxing sugary drinks is the right approach tho, think educating people on what to eat is much more important. And lose the low fat is healthy agenda, it really isn't!

*pavlova

Tax the bloody companies making a fortune from unhealthy foods and give it to the NHS, taxing poor people isn't the way forward!

Thing is luc, that might make people stop buying the products. All manufacturers want their products to sell, so they're unlikely to put anything on the packaging that will put people off. Just look how long it took for full nutritional info/traffic light system to be put on packaging.