The wizard eats five portions of fruit and vegetables was adopted in 2003 as an effort to improve diet and increase the intake of vitamin community. But in the UK, fruit and vegetables are expensive so that it is difficult for low-income people to meet the target. So said Dr. Helen Stokes-Lampard.
"expensive to meet the suggestions of five portions of fruit and vegetables," he said. He said the target is not realistic it should be revised because they can reduce the moral of society that could not fulfill it.
Healthy diet price three times more expensive than junk food. So according to researchers from the University of Cambridge to analyze the changes in the price of food between 2002 and 2012.
They find the price of healthy foods such as tomatoes and milk semi low fat up sharply compared to the less healthy food such as frozen pizza and ice cream. Healthy food is three times more expensive per the average calories.
Lawrence Haddad, executive director of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition says the target of five portions of fruit and vegetables should not be removed. "I realize the argument of the moral decline and no validation to that.But if we give up, we like to accept defeat," he said.
"I am not sure people cannot buy five portions of fruit and vegetables. I have not seen strong evidence for that," he added.
There are many kinds of fruit and vegetables. The consumption of fruit and vegetables was not to be expensive.
According to him, supermarket must reduce restrictions on vegetables which forms an imperfect and can be sold with the price at an angle, because vegetables still had the same nutritional value with perfect shaped.
He also mentions the more agricultural research funding should be used to increase the efficiency of the production of fruit and vegetables. And that can be implemented to promote a healthy diet.
"There are many creativity spaces to create interesting fruit and vegetables to be eaten. Celebrity Chef must do many things that the food boring so more interesting," he said.
Dr. Stokes-Lampard last week ago became the chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioner who represents approximately 50 thousand doctors in the UK.
He also said that smokers sometimes should be encouraged to reduce than directly stop. The official alcohol guide for men and women to drink a maximum of 14 units a week may be too tight.
But in fact, it is only one-third of the population of England who eat more than five portions of fruit and vegetables every day, according to the Eurostat.
