Four Years Later: The Worrying Impact of the Government-Mandated Calorie Count
© VulcanSphere / Wikimedia Commons For the Labour government, the next step in regulating food nutrition is a tightrope. Although one of the key targets of the Starmer-turned-Burnham government is to reduce obesity rates, alleviating the burden on the NHS, our culture of calorie counting is seen as the main route to ordered eating, and therefore disordered eating. In April 2022, the then-Conservative UK government mandated that all cafes and restaurants with more than 250 staff must list...
