Medicine has become a one-size fits-all: everybody cut down on fats, sugar, salt, red meats.
The EU nutrient profile model is a category-specific model with threshold criteria (for making a health or nutrition claim) based on saturated fat, sodium and total sugar content.
Until 1948 all glycerol was obtained as a by-product in making soaps from animal and vegetable fats and oils, but industrial syntheses based on propylene or sugar has accounted for an increasingly large percentage of production since that time.
It's also far easier to monitor and enforce a policy such as "no advergaming" than one based on grams of salt, sugar and fat.
**Healthy diet (HD) means regular meals spread evenly throughout the day, low in fat, particularly saturated fat, and sugar and based on high fiber carbohydrate foods.
Price differences may also depend on how healthfulness is defined, ranging from definitions based on single nutrients (eg, fat or sugar content) to those based on food types or more complex diet patterns.
The Health Check™ criteria are based on levels of total fat, saturated and trans fat, sodium, carbohydrates, fibre, sugar, protein, and vitamins and minerals and the presence of fruit and vegetables and whole grains.
The low-fat and fat-free dairy recommendations are based on the premise that saturated fats are harmful (see my article on fats for more on this) and that Americans should cut down on these calories -- but the truth is Americans are not getting heavier due to the fat in dairy products but rather due to the overconsumption of sugars and refined carbohydrates.
We measured fat concentration via a modified Rose-Gottlieb method, calculated protein based on crude nitrogen content, and sugar concentration from the phenol sulfuric acid method described in precise detail elsewhere (Hinde et al. 2009; Hood et al. 2009).
The sugar contents in the liquid fractions were based on both monomer and oligomer sugars.
