Should sweets and chocolate carry graphic health warnings similar to cigarettes?
A recent study carried out by experts at Cambridge University has found that printing graphic health images and information on chocolate bar packaging could help tackle obesity.
It is claimed that putting cigarette-style health warnings and images on the outside of the packaging of unhealthy food will ultimately put people off buying it.
Researchers say messages emphasising the relationship between the product and the potential risks of heart disease, obesity and cancer from eating the excess calories in the product may help with the UK’s drive to reduce obesity.
Currently, only nutritional information like calories, fat, sugar, and salt content has to be displayed on food packaging but in future similar graphic images such as those used on cigarette packets could be added.
Obesity is seen as one of the UK’s biggest health issues, with latest data showing that 64 per cent of adults are overweight and a recent analysis by Cancer Research UK predicting 71 per cent of adults in the UK will be overweight by 2040.
Would you still choose to eat a chocolate bar if it came with a photo of someone having open heart surgery?
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