Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 October 2012

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed)

10:20 am

Dr. Cliodhna Foley-Nolan:

With due respect to the people on my right, they have a product which has a certain market. I do not see schools as a market for it primarily. It is, perhaps, for people with diabetes. One is still talking about all processed carbohydrates. It is not as if one has food that has some fibre in it such as fruit. If one eats sweet things in the United States, although they might be low in sugar or sugar-free, they are even sweeter than they are here. In a way, therefore, one is substituting one sweet for another, albeit that it no longer has the calories in it.