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Article: The Saturday essay: Nigel White, secretary of the British Cheese Board, on why a traffic-light labelling system is flawed.(Comment)
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- November 6, 2004
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Cheese is a natural way of preserving the protein, cream, calcium and vitamins in milk, making it one of the most nutritionally compact foods you can eat. But despite its nutritional qualities, its history and heritage, cheese is under fire.
In the pursuit of quick solutions to the obesity and diet-related diseases, cheese is in danger of being branded as a danger food by any government traffic-light system as it is high in fat and high in salt.
The British Cheese Board awaits government proposals on nutrition profiling and new ideas on food labelling being developed supposedly to make it easier for consumers to make healthy choices.
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