“红绿灯”引导健康饮食

You don't need me to tell you we're getting fatter. It's back on the political agenda in a big way. Andy Burnham, the Labour Party, want to cap sugar levels in cereals and similar controls on salt and fat in other foods pitched to children. Then the Department of Health has been piling on the advice in the last few days with prime-time TV ads, urging us to cut the junk and eat better.

Honestly, you lots, what are you putting into your bodies? This is the amount of fat in that whole pizza. Yuck!

That new onslaught of corporate-endorsed ads is a prelude to what many people in the food business see as a big change. After decades of work and millions of research hours, this year the controversial food traffic light labels will be everywhere in the UK. For 20 plus years supermarkets have debated, argued and refused. But now they've all agreed a voluntary system of labelling that packeted, tinned and box foods with traffic lights - red, amber and green - on the front of food packs to warn us about the evils of fat, salt and sugar.