Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 30 May 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion

9:30 am

Dr. Mimi Tatlow-Golden:

Food is more complex. Smoking is easy to deal with; the advice is that people just stop. With food people can have a little bit. Who defines what a little bit is? Is it a little bit with lunch and a little bit after tea? Is it a couple of biscuits at bedtime and a treat at the weekend? That adds up to many little bits. It is difficult. Plain paper packaging on breakfast cereals would be a interesting concept to explore. One can imagine the push back there would be on that. Some changes will have to be made.

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