The Health Promotion Board (HPB) unveiled these plans yesterday
at the launch of its new Healthier Hawker Programme, which aims to
stem the rising obesity rates here. The latest National Health
Survey last year showed that one in 10 Singaporeans is obese.
Explaining the move, HPB chief executive Ang Hak Seng said more
Singaporeans are eating out, with seven in 10 consuming more than
the daily recommended calorie intake. Of these, about 15 per cent
eat at least twice the recommended daily amount, he added.
An average adult should consume about 2,000 calories a day. The
number of people who eat at hawker centres, food courts and coffee
shops at least four times a week has also risen from 49 per cent in
2004 to 60 per cent last year, preliminary results from the HPB's
new National Nutrition Survey showed.
'We tell people to eat healthier food. But if they go to the
hawker centre, there's no healthy food. That's the issue,' said Mr
Ang at Yuhua Hawker Centre, which became the first in Singapore to
offer healthier choices.
Nearly all of the 53 stalls there now provide options like brown
rice and wholegrain noodles besides regular white rice and noodles.
The dishes are cooked using a mix of palm and soya bean oil that
contains 25 per cent less saturated fat than pure palm oil, which
is commonly used by hawkers.
3 YRS LATEER , than come n say.
under tis pap govtment, everyting go up, lesser job 4
sinkapolian, lesser pay......dont knw cant survive another 3 yrs
anok.
