Seanad debates

Tuesday, 9 December 2014

2:50 pm

Photo of Catherine NooneCatherine Noone (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I do a lot of research on the area of obesity and try to come up with different ways to help in what is the ever-increasing crisis of obesity in this country. Mandatory calorie labelling has been looked at recently in America, in particular in regard to the volume of exercise which would be required to burn off individual food and drink products. The vast majority of people do not realise that, for example, a glass of wine will take an hour to walk off and an Indian takeaway would take about seven hours to walk off. One measure which has proven effective-----

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