Hospital food for children is 'shockingly unhealthy'
source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/oct/09/hospital-food-for-children-unhealthy
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Children receiving hospital treatment are being given meals containing "shocking" amounts of salt, sugar and saturated fat, damning new research into the quality of NHS food shows.
Many of the dishes served to child patients are so unhealthy that senior doctors are calling for minimum nutritional standards to be imposed on hospitals similar to those that already apply in schools.
The findings are revealed in a study carried out by the food campaign group Consensus Action on Salt and Health (Cash), which is headed by an expert in cardiovascular medicine. They analysed the nutritional content of 451 main meals, snacks and desserts served to children in hospitals in England and found that:
■ Almost half the main meals, 85 of 189, contained so much salt or saturated fat that they would be deemed too unhealthy to be offered to school pupils.
■ Those high levels of both salt and saturated fat also meant 30% of all the 451 dishes would be classed "red" under the traffic-light food labelling system used by some major supermarkets.
■ One hospital meal, a chicken tikka massala and rice, contained 14 times more salt and 8.5 times the amount of saturated fat of a chicken and vegetable balti and rice school lunch.
■ A lasagne had almost six times the level of salt as one served in schools – 3.2 grams compared to 0.57g.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/oct/09/hospital-food-for-children-unhealt...
Many of the dishes served to child patients are so unhealthy that senior doctors are calling for minimum nutritional standards to be imposed on hospitals similar to those that already apply in schools.
The findings are revealed in a study carried out by the food campaign group Consensus Action on Salt and Health (Cash), which is headed by an expert in cardiovascular medicine. They analysed the nutritional content of 451 main meals, snacks and desserts served to children in hospitals in England and found that:
■ Almost half the main meals, 85 of 189, contained so much salt or saturated fat that they would be deemed too unhealthy to be offered to school pupils.
■ Those high levels of both salt and saturated fat also meant 30% of all the 451 dishes would be classed "red" under the traffic-light food labelling system used by some major supermarkets.
■ One hospital meal, a chicken tikka massala and rice, contained 14 times more salt and 8.5 times the amount of saturated fat of a chicken and vegetable balti and rice school lunch.
■ A lasagne had almost six times the level of salt as one served in schools – 3.2 grams compared to 0.57g.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/oct/09/hospital-food-for-children-unhealt...
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artemis6
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Hospitals are FOR PROFIT , they will never feed they healthy .
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artemis6
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rmann0581
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I wonder what the doctors that work in these hospitals think about this? Do they not teach medical students about a proper diet?
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rmann0581
