Week 14



Activity icons 'could help healthy living’

Image caption How much exercise would it take to burn this off?

We all like to have a chocolate bar in our lunch time but are we aware of the calories that are in this chocolate? And even if we know the number what dose nit actually mean? The BBC News as well as the BBC Radio focuses on this question. ‘We think a clearer way of making people more mindful of the calories they are consuming is for a food or drink product to also show on the front of the packet a small icon which would visually display just how much activity you would need to do to burn off the calories it contains.’

To display the time and activity you have to afford to burn those extra calories might help us all to be a bit healthier.

The issue that represented it’s the general problem of two in three of us are either overweight or obese. This has to be changed and the little activity icons might help. The icons aren’t mad to scare people. It should help us to readjust our diets to not put on weight.

In my opinion it’s a good idea to display clearly what it takes to burn the extra calories but the danger that it scares people or creates a society of obsessives is high. In the end this society always exists and I would be happy to see in the future those icons on chocolate bars.