A new app to monitor the amount of sugar in drinks. Seriously?
Allegedly this is the new, fantastic initiative to encourage children to take more notice of the sugar content of their drinks.
At what point does the Government actually believe children will care?
If obesity in children is an issue (pretty much a certainty) then get them outdoors running / climbing / playing sports / swimming, don't give them another reason to stay indoors glued to their electronic devices. Get sports and PE back on the school curriculum - every day, for all children, no matter how young or old. Put more emphasis on joining school sports teams, get them battling the teams at other schools. And at the same time, start to instil the long-lost competitive instinct which means we no longer win national competitions as often.
There was so much hype in post-olympic 2012 about getting our children involved in sports again; but four years later, how much has really happened?
I know I was a child in the ice age (according to my daughter anyway.) But sports for me as a child were a daily requirement. We could eat almost anything in moderation; but very few of us were really fat, let alone obese. And bear in mind that our diet included much more saturated fat, as well as the vilified sugar.
So, enough with the "trendy" apps and computer programmes. Get children outdoors, get them fitter and able to burn off what they eat. :)
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