Originally Posted by
larvidchr
fact is that it is usually the already dubious/fattening type products that get vitamins artificially added
I don't know about 'usually', but I do know several foods with silly amounts of sugar added that push the 'vitamin supplement' angle. Added sugar is an infinitely worse health hazard than added vitamins anyway- what has Denmark done about that?
But looking at the list of 'banned substances' from the above article negates your point- those products could in no way be considered unhealthy, except perhaps ovaltine which contains too much added sugar. In particular, marmite & horlicks are particularly nutritious. If you are paying bureacrats to ban the sale of Marmite, in a country that has Big Mac & KFC openly for sale, and thousands of food products with obscene amounts of added sugar, you should definitely either sack them, or spend a wee bit more money and send them to some sort of nutrition school. In the case of products which
are actually junk but push the 'added vitamin' angle, I don't have any issue with them being banned (more with them being sold in the first place), but in this case what you are looking at is bureaucratic madness, all paid for by the taxpayer- for what, after all, is perfectly healthy food mainly for the small expatriate community. The legislation was not designed to catch the likes of marmite and shredded wheat.
Originally Posted by
larvidchr
Obesity, heart disease, cancer and many other ailments from bad food products/habits is a big economic and social problem in many industrialized Country's,
Sure, including Denmark- but the products just banned by overzealous Danish bureaucrats are, if anything, foods that should be eaten more, to substitute for the more unhealthy foods people scoff that contribute to these ailments. There would be less obesity in Denmark if people had a nice mar/vegemite on wholewheat toast, instead of scoffing themselves at those sausage carts.