ARE YOU SICK OF THE TICK? Nearly 37,000 Australians, including celebrity chef Pete Evans, have lost faith in one of the country’s most trusted health organisations. Their beef is with the Heart Foundation’s controversial Tick of approval. (**HEREIN LIES THE REASON, WE BELIEVE .....)The trademark health food label pulls in $2.8 million from food manufacturers each year. Brisbane wellness advocate Jessie Reimers, who launched the petition, claims the Heart Foundation is a puppet for the processed food industry and that it puts profit ahead of health advice. “It just seems absolutely ridiculous that a health authority like the Heart Foundation, whom many of the public trust and listen to, advise to eat a diet made up of mostly processed carbohydrates in the form of cereal, bread and pasta, consume margarine and vegetable/seed oils which are unnatural and contribute to inflammation, processed sugar-filled foods filled with additives, preservatives, colours and flavours and which are devoid of essential nutrients and even products that contain aspartame,” she said. More than 2000 food products in Australia, including everything from Milo Chocolate Cereal to Gravox reduced-salt gravy, carry the Tick. The Heart Foundation has also deemed McCain’s Ham and Pineapple Pizza Singles, pasta sauce and margarine worthy of the healthy Tick. But now an online army has been mobilised to drastically overhaul the tick, circulating a petition calling on the Heart Foundation to update its nutrition advice or trash the program altogether. And some big names in the nutrition world, including Pete Evans, Sarah Wilson and David Gillespie, have thrown their weight behind the campaign. My Kitchen Rules judge Chef Pete Evans — who has publicly criticised the organisation for endorsing unhealthy products such as frozen pizzas — has urged his 322,000-plus Facebook followers to sign the petition, which will be delivered to the Heart Foundation next week. “If the heart foundation has any credibility it will reassess this system immediately to regain the faith of the people that look to them for guidance and advice,” he wrote on his Facebook page. Sweet Poison author David Gillespie has been busily blogging about the tick program after years of research into the nutrition industry for his latest book Big Fat Lies. Read lots more: news.au/lifestyle/health/pete-evans-backs-petition-to-scrap-heart-foundations-healthy-tick/story-fneuz9ev-1227084759668 #heart #tick #tickofapproval #sweetpoison #bigfatlies
Posted on: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 01:07:06 +0000
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