Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 11 October 2012

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed)

10:30 am

Photo of Jerry ButtimerJerry Buttimer (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Fitzpatrick made a comment about a possible solution. I cannot disagree with any of the comments, which were brilliant. However, we held a similar discussion here last week. Let us suppose I am in the supermarket and I have my shopping list. How do I relate it to the top shelf and the pyramid? How do we get the mindset of the mother or the father or the person doing the shopping to change from the top shelf? We have no solution. Should signs be put up in the local fast food restaurant or take away? Should they put up the number of calories in fried chicken and batter burgers and so on? Does that change minds?

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