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In UK: Hospital food more harmful to health than Big Mac and KFC Zinger burger!

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Hospital grub scandal


EXCLUSIVE
By EMMA LITTLE, Health and Science Editor

Last Updated: 21st May 2012

A BIG Mac is healthier than 75 per cent of NHS meals, a shock study has revealed.

One curry served to patients had SIX times more fat than a KFC Zinger Burger with fries.

And a pasta dish had over THREE times a person’s total daily recommended saturated fat intake and TWICE the salt limit.


The damning truth about NHS grub was unearthed by the Sun-backed Campaign for Better Hospital Food.


It wants MPs to bring in minimum dietary standards on wards — which schools and even JAILS already have.


Campaigner Alex Jackson said: “It’s staggering to think sick patients could be better off eating at McDonald’s.


“Without standards, many meals will remain unhealthy and unappetising.” Seventy-five per cent of hospital nosh contained more saturated fat than a Big Mac, while 60 per cent had more salt, experts discovered.


And 40 per cent of meals had higher saturated fat levels than a 9in Pizza Hut pepperoni pizza. The stodgy fare helps explain why 30million dishes a year go uneaten in English hospitals, despite £50million spent in the past decade to improve them.

Researcher Katharine Jenner warned bad diets threatened patients’ health.

She said: “Salt and saturated fat is linked to heart disease and strokes.

“Hospitals should provide tasty and healthy meals, rather than ones that could lead to more health problems.”

The probe by Mr Jackson’s Sustain group examined 25 meals from the NHS Supply Chain, which provides food to almost every hospital trust.

The crusade — which includes the Patients Association and organic farming charity the Soil Association — has now got MPs to table a Transforming Hospital Food Bill, discussed in the Commons for the first time this week.

The Department of Health said hospitals decided diets but admitted yesterday: “There’s no excuse for any hospital offering poor quality food.”

TO back the campaign visit www.hospitalfoodbill.org



 

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