Dr. Chris van Tulleken
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There's no perfect way of doing it, but you use tight levels for salt, fat, and sugar, and then you put a proper warning label on. So at the moment on your US proposal, there's going to be high, medium, low for saturated fat, salt, and sugar. It's not a bad way of doing it, but the low, you get low for added, well, for added sugars, and it should be free sugars, but that's a separate thing.
There's no perfect way of doing it, but you use tight levels for salt, fat, and sugar, and then you put a proper warning label on. So at the moment on your US proposal, there's going to be high, medium, low for saturated fat, salt, and sugar. It's not a bad way of doing it, but the low, you get low for added, well, for added sugars, and it should be free sugars, but that's a separate thing.
But you get low if it's 5% sugar. Now, WHO say... And UK governments say you shouldn't eat more than 5% of your calories from free sugar at all. You'll get health benefits all the way down to 5% if you can get it down. So saying that 5% is low when that's at the upper edge of what WHO recommend for a daily intake, it feels lax.
But you get low if it's 5% sugar. Now, WHO say... And UK governments say you shouldn't eat more than 5% of your calories from free sugar at all. You'll get health benefits all the way down to 5% if you can get it down. So saying that 5% is low when that's at the upper edge of what WHO recommend for a daily intake, it feels lax.
But you get low if it's 5% sugar. Now, WHO say... And UK governments say you shouldn't eat more than 5% of your calories from free sugar at all. You'll get health benefits all the way down to 5% if you can get it down. So saying that 5% is low when that's at the upper edge of what WHO recommend for a daily intake, it feels lax.
I think you know what I think about this. So what you then end up with is products that, and we have these in the, so we have the traffic lights in the UK, and you have a product with a red, green, and an amber. Now, what do you do at that traffic light? Is it good? Is it bad? In South America, Central America, they've got a really good system where they just use black octagonal warning labels.
I think you know what I think about this. So what you then end up with is products that, and we have these in the, so we have the traffic lights in the UK, and you have a product with a red, green, and an amber. Now, what do you do at that traffic light? Is it good? Is it bad? In South America, Central America, they've got a really good system where they just use black octagonal warning labels.
I think you know what I think about this. So what you then end up with is products that, and we have these in the, so we have the traffic lights in the UK, and you have a product with a red, green, and an amber. Now, what do you do at that traffic light? Is it good? Is it bad? In South America, Central America, they've got a really good system where they just use black octagonal warning labels.
Like a stop sign. It's a stop sign. Once you're over the recommended daily maximum, you get a black octagon. But the most important thing, right, is the warning labels don't do much. For every policy problem, you need five policies to solve it. And every policy should be solving five solutions. This is the sort of public health maxim. So you can't just stick octagons on.
Like a stop sign. It's a stop sign. Once you're over the recommended daily maximum, you get a black octagon. But the most important thing, right, is the warning labels don't do much. For every policy problem, you need five policies to solve it. And every policy should be solving five solutions. This is the sort of public health maxim. So you can't just stick octagons on.
Like a stop sign. It's a stop sign. Once you're over the recommended daily maximum, you get a black octagon. But the most important thing, right, is the warning labels don't do much. For every policy problem, you need five policies to solve it. And every policy should be solving five solutions. This is the sort of public health maxim. So you can't just stick octagons on.
If a product has an octagon, the monkey has to come off the box. If it's got three octagons, it's got to have progressive taxation. You just cited some of the economic data around how much this is costing. So we don't want to make food more expensive for people who are disadvantaged, but you have to tax the worst products. If a product has an octagon, it cannot be marketed to children.
If a product has an octagon, the monkey has to come off the box. If it's got three octagons, it's got to have progressive taxation. You just cited some of the economic data around how much this is costing. So we don't want to make food more expensive for people who are disadvantaged, but you have to tax the worst products. If a product has an octagon, it cannot be marketed to children.
If a product has an octagon, the monkey has to come off the box. If it's got three octagons, it's got to have progressive taxation. You just cited some of the economic data around how much this is costing. So we don't want to make food more expensive for people who are disadvantaged, but you have to tax the worst products. If a product has an octagon, it cannot be marketed to children.
It can't have an online or TV ad. The warning label does nothing. What you have to do is find a really tight way of defining unhealthy food. The food you are trying to label is ultra-processed. You use your fats, sugar, salt, energy thresholds to label the UPS.
It can't have an online or TV ad. The warning label does nothing. What you have to do is find a really tight way of defining unhealthy food. The food you are trying to label is ultra-processed. You use your fats, sugar, salt, energy thresholds to label the UPS.
It can't have an online or TV ad. The warning label does nothing. What you have to do is find a really tight way of defining unhealthy food. The food you are trying to label is ultra-processed. You use your fats, sugar, salt, energy thresholds to label the UPS.
Chris Van Tulleken wants to ban food for poor people is the way the headline gets written. If you put me in charge of the FDA, I'll tell you what, the most important thing So I'm very careful how I use my voice. I am ostentatiously a man with privilege of a particular age. You know, I'm educated. I'm insulated from the problem insofar as anyone is.
Chris Van Tulleken wants to ban food for poor people is the way the headline gets written. If you put me in charge of the FDA, I'll tell you what, the most important thing So I'm very careful how I use my voice. I am ostentatiously a man with privilege of a particular age. You know, I'm educated. I'm insulated from the problem insofar as anyone is.
Chris Van Tulleken wants to ban food for poor people is the way the headline gets written. If you put me in charge of the FDA, I'll tell you what, the most important thing So I'm very careful how I use my voice. I am ostentatiously a man with privilege of a particular age. You know, I'm educated. I'm insulated from the problem insofar as anyone is.