Are Celebrity Chefs? Recipes Contributing to the Obesity Crisis?

[Northerner]

Celebrity chefs may not be such experts, after all ? at least in health. A new study from Britain?s Coventry University reveals that celebrity chefs may compound the country?s obesity problem by featuring too many fatty and highly caloric ingredients in their recipes.

Researchers examined 904 recipes from 26 chefs and found that 87 percent are not in accordance with the British government?s healthy eating guidelines, Reuters reports, using large amounts of saturated fatty acids, salt and sugar. Only 13 percent of the celebrity chef-approved recipes used nutritional ingredients that fall under the nation?s Food Standards Agency recommendations. Some experts estimate that by 2020, about 70% of adults in the U.K. and U.S. will be overweight, while England?s obesity rate has risen to 24.8% of adults, ages 16 and over, and 16.3% of children, ages 2 to 15, according to data from 2011.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/04/29/could-celebrity-chef-recipes-add-to-the-obesity-problem/

 

[LeeLee]

Oh for goodness sake! Who will they blame next? Surely not the people who bother to buy all that butter, make into something delicious and actually eat the stuff.

Maybe they should read out health warnings at the end of the programmes, like they do with premium-rate phone competitions.

'Following the recipes shown in this programme might put you at risk of obesity if you eat the lot in one sitting or indulge more than once in a blue moon.'

Suggestions re: alternative warnings please...

 

[Lauras87]

Well that's James Martin from Saturday kitchen done for with all the butter he uses!

Why is it easier to blame others than the person who ended up in that state? Things are good for you in moderation not let's eat it all in 1 sitting