A recent run-in with another parent at my daughter’s sport’s club was food for thought.
It started with a jelly snake. I had been handing out a single jelly snake to each girl in my daughter’s little athletics team at the end of the sessions I was age manager for .
Initially, I felt bad for the girl but also for being presumptuous. After all, different families have different rules and attitudes – I had never intended to be disrespectful.Still, I couldn’t help but feel there was a broader picture at play: namely, how we digest the growing evidence that ultra-processed foods are detrimental to our health, while still cultivating a healthy attitude towards unhealthy foods.
Now, without an effective food policy in place and with the food industry holding all the lobbying power and money, Jacka says, “We have a food environment that sets us up to fail.” They are also on the shelves of Louise Adams, a clinical psychologist specialising in problematic eating and body image. “I used beef stock cubes in my dinner last night – highly processed and full of all sorts of deadlies.”