Your favourite foods may change FOREVER as officials order supermarkets and fast food chains to introduce ‘calorie caps’
Radical ingredient shake-up comes amid concerns about tubby Brits' bulging waistlines and the resulting cost to the NHS from obesity related conditions
BRITAIN’S fast food and ready-meals are set to change forever as providers are to be ordered to "calorie cap" their products.
Authorities are in effect putting shoppers on a diet to combat obesity which is afflicting more than one in four adults.
Public Health England (PHE), the government's health quango, has told restaurant and supermarket chains to "reformulate" foods to slash the calories in "out-of-home" food, including ready meals.
The aim is to work with the food industry to cut out calories over several years.
In March, PHE is set to announce the successful first results of its sugar-fighting plans.
Chief PHE nutritionist Dr Alison Tedstone said: "This is about looking at the 75 percent of calories that are not covered by the sugar reduction programme.
"This is about things like pizzas [and] ready-made sandwiches, and setting out guidelines for them.
"We've got KFC at the back chicken and chips. We will be talking to you."
KFC is infamous among obesity campaigners for junk food such as its Mighty Bucket for One, which contains 1,235 calories, double what is recommended for a meal.
Women are advised to never consume more than 2,000 calories a day and men 2,500, unless they are physically active.
The food industry plan will coincide with a public education programme called One You.
This will advise people to eat no more than 400 calories for breakfast, 600 for lunch and 600 for dinner.
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Doing this leaves 400 calories for snacks or drinks.
Meanwhile, a study at Oxford University found current health guidelines for drinking are too generous.
They recommend men and women should not regularly drink more than two units of alcohol a day.
But the new study in the Journal of Public Health found consuming more than one unit of alcohol a day is “detrimental to cognitive performance”, especially among older people.
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