Consequences of diet - Education is best recipe for success

It’s not as if anyone who gave it a moment’s thought hadn’t realised it.

It may be, though, that too many of us don’t give it even a moment’s thought. And, if we do, we too easily choose to ignore damning evidence every time we step up to the interface between pleasure and health. Yesterday’s confirmation that a typical Chinese takeaway may surpass an individual’s total daily requirement of calories identifies one more thing we should consider an indulgence with consequences rather than a sensible, regular lifestyle choice.

Safefood, the all-island body responsible for food safety and healthy eating, also warned that other ethnic foods — Indian, for example — contain too much salt.