Traffic‐light food labels
Traffic‐light food labels
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红绿灯食品标签
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发表时间：
2007
影响因子：
11.4
通讯作者：
M. Riley
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作者：
T. Beard;C. Nowson;M. Riley
编者按：为了控制现代流行的可预防疾病，澳大利亚的饮食指南建议在四个营养领域-脂肪、饱和脂肪、糖和盐-适度。尽管如此，肥胖症和糖尿病的流行似乎势不可挡。这并不令人惊讶--这些指导方针很少公之于众，而且它们建议人们在没有定义的情况下“节制”。齐梅特和詹姆斯推荐了“TrafficLight”食品标签(红色、琥珀色、绿色)，以此来教育购物者食品的营养质量。交通灯食品标签宣传节制的信息，琥珀色表示节制。购物者可以一目了然地看到他们呼吁适度饮食的四个领域的食品遵守指南的情况。因此，盐光为琥珀色时盐分含量适中，红色时盐分含量较高，绿色时盐分含量较低。脂肪、饱和脂肪和糖也是如此。颜色编码以每100克或每100毫升的浓度为单位，具有任意边界(框1和框2)。一种食物的绿灯越多，它就越健康。在这些标签的帮助下，卫生专业人员可以通过限制饮食来治疗高脂血症，建议患者只购买脂肪和饱和脂肪绿灯亮起的食品。他们可以治疗高血压前期(血压120/80毫米汞柱)，从而通过建议患者吃盐绿灯食品和其他区域绿色或琥珀色的食物来预防高血压。出于“疏导交通”的目的，最好的方法是灵活、全面和针对每种食物。例如，琥珀色的灯光可能会建议适量使用橄榄油，即使它恰好是100%脂肪的。新鲜水果的天然糖含量高到足以让许多水果被评为琥珀色，但适量并不是水果的正确信息。澳大利亚的交通灯标签可以避免这种情况，因为澳大利亚的饮食指南只提到了添加糖。澳大利亚可能会增加一个能量密度的红绿灯标签(根据kJ/100g显示相同的三种颜色)，并扩大饱和脂肪类别，将反式脂肪包括在内，极低的阈值会触发自动红灯。许多购物者会惊讶地发现，澳大利亚最畅销的几种早餐麦片带有两个红灯(用于添加糖和盐)，许多加工肉类带有三到四个红灯(用于能量密度、脂肪、饱和脂肪和/或盐)。澳大利亚政府委员会宣布了一项全国性的运动，以遏制日益流行的儿童肥胖症。红绿灯标签将使父母能够通过几乎只购买带有绿色和琥珀色红绿灯标签的食品来保护他们的家庭免受肥胖的影响-红绿灯标签包含脂肪、饱和脂肪和添加糖。控制肥胖的食物选择涉及购物行为的根本改变，而红绿灯标签的明确设计是为了促进彻底改变。它们需要是强制性的，它们需要取代行业赞助的计划，我们认为这些计划不太可能改变客户的购买模式。
TO THE EDITOR: To control the modern epidemics of preventable disease, Australia’s dietary guidelines recommend moderation in four nutritional areas — fat, saturated fat, sugar and salt. In spite of this, the obesity and diabetes epidemics seem unstoppable. This is hardly surprising — these guidelines seldom reach the public, nd they recommend “moderation” without defining it. Zimmet and James recommend “trafficlight” food labels (red, amber, green) as way of educating shoppers in the nutritional quality of foods. Traffic-light food labels promote the moderation message, with moderation indicated by an amber colour. Shoppers can see at a glance a food’s profile of compliance with the guidelines for each of the four areas where they call for moderation. Thus, salt content is moderate when the light for salt is amber, high when it is red and low when it is green. The same applies to fat, saturated fat and sugar. The colour coding is based on concentration in grams per 100 g or per 100 mL, with arbitrary boundaries (Box 1 and Box 2). The more green lights a food has, the healthier it is. With the aid of these labels, health professionals can treat hyperlipidaemia by dietary restriction, giving patients advice to shop exclusively for foods with green lights for fat and saturated fat. They can treat prehypertension (blood pressure, 120/80 mmHg) and thereby prevent hypertension by advising patients to eat foods with green lights for salt and green or amber in every other area. With the intention being to “guide the traffic”, the best approach would be flexible, holistic and specific for each food. For example, an amber light could recommend olive oil in moderation, even though it happens to be 100% fat. The natural sugar content of fresh fruits is high enough to give many fruits an amber rating, but moderation is hardly the right message for fruit. Australian traffic-light labels could avoid this, as the Australian dietary guidelines speak only of added sugar. Australia might add a traffic-light label for energy density (showing the same three colours based on kJ/100g), and expand the saturated fat category to include trans fat, with very low thresholds triggering automatic red lights. Many shoppers would be surprised to find several of Australia’s best-selling breakfast cereals carrying two red lights (for added sugar and salt) and many processed meats with three or four red lights (for energy density, fat, saturated fat and/or salt). The Council of Australian Governments has announced a national campaign to arrest the growing epidemic of childhood obesity. Traffic-light labels would enable parents to protect their families from obesity by shopping almost exclusively for foods with green and amber traffic-light labels for fat, saturated fat, and added sugar. Food choices to control obesity involve a radical change in shopping behaviour, and traffic-light labels are expressly designed to promote radical change. They need to be mandatory, and they need to replace industry-sponsored schemes, which we believe are less likely to alter a customer’s buying patterns.
影响因子：
120.7
作者：
Vasan, RS;Beiser, A;Levy, D
通讯作者：
Levy, D
影响因子：
7.1
作者：
BERTINO, M;BEAUCHAMP, GK;ENGELMAN, K
通讯作者：
ENGELMAN, K