I have been caught ranting recently against the government’s new requirement that large restaurants, cafes and takeaways are required to list the number of calories in each item on their menu.
Another bold marriage of ingredients: data science and food writing. The ‘folly’ argument is evidenced but I wondered at possible partiality (there must be many more studies). The more interesting claim (for me) is the price of a price tag, the currencies in which it is paid, and its diminishment of the essence of a dish (bestowing deep pleasure upon a human). Twice this last week, in a grab and go (at Pret, at Greggs) I bought on the calorie count not the content. I was deeply impressed at how easily a food disorder arises – as if from a well spring - even within one practiced at dealing with disorders.
Yes data is slightly cherrypicked, though I couldn't find much to the contrary, while the American study on fast food sales is about empirical as you can get (it's not some controlled study, but in the wild, with a huge dataset spanning many states). Another telling thing is that the government does not reference any study in their official page on the policy https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-calorie-labelling-rules-come-into-force-to-improve-nations-health
Though onto the more interesting bit; perhaps being practiced at dealing with disorders should signal heightened propensity to them rather than heightened defence.
Another bold marriage of ingredients: data science and food writing. The ‘folly’ argument is evidenced but I wondered at possible partiality (there must be many more studies). The more interesting claim (for me) is the price of a price tag, the currencies in which it is paid, and its diminishment of the essence of a dish (bestowing deep pleasure upon a human). Twice this last week, in a grab and go (at Pret, at Greggs) I bought on the calorie count not the content. I was deeply impressed at how easily a food disorder arises – as if from a well spring - even within one practiced at dealing with disorders.
Yes data is slightly cherrypicked, though I couldn't find much to the contrary, while the American study on fast food sales is about empirical as you can get (it's not some controlled study, but in the wild, with a huge dataset spanning many states). Another telling thing is that the government does not reference any study in their official page on the policy https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-calorie-labelling-rules-come-into-force-to-improve-nations-health
Though onto the more interesting bit; perhaps being practiced at dealing with disorders should signal heightened propensity to them rather than heightened defence.