Murashko: Russians "feed on empty calories"
Russians are increasingly choosing products that provide no benefit to the body, Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said. According to him, a taste for sweet and fatty foods is a biological human trait, but today it is reinforced by aggressive marketing of unhealthy foods. RT in Russian reports.
“We have shifted to consuming large amounts of empty calories that, essentially, we do not need for our vital functions,” the head of the Health Ministry said at the plenary session of the National Congress “National Healthcare.”
Murashko stressed that advertising of unhealthy products directly contributes to the rise in obesity among the population, as numerous studies confirm. By the way, earlier we wrote that Kirov Oblast ranked fourth in Russia for child obesity. Read more here.
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Murashko: Russians "feed on empty calories"
Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said that modern Russians are increasingly choosing "empty calories" — foods that do not benefit the body but are becoming part of their everyday diet.