Baby food warnings 'smacks of patronising attitude towards mothers' says Ella Whelan

‘This is a patronising attitude towards parents and mothers’

Journalist Ella Whelan reacts to Action for Sugar calls to remove ‘unnecessary sugar’ from baby food.

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[jamescaley]

Like the packet of peanuts that contains the health warning "may contain nuts".

[blunelson]

The reason there's heavy regulation on baby formula is because of what the companies did in Africa. It in international law that all adds has "breast milk is best" and that "baby formula isn't a substitute for breastmilk"

[lindalaw]

Please, do not assume everyone has the same level of understanding or have been parented adequately themselves. Information is useful. It can only help. There is little else in the way of support from health visitors either.

[johntom]

1:47 "unfortunately", yeah how unfortunate is it that woman get to be with there children and make decisions for them, it's so unfortunate that they doesn't get to abandon there own children.

[shrimperlincs]

Childhood obesity is through the roof. If you train a pallet to need high sugar they will be addicted to sugar for life.

[keithlevoir]

Warning this warning contains a warning

[sidwainhouse]

What about people who can't read or don't fully understand the amounts given? The traffic light system helps them a lot.

[minniebluebell]

You don't have time to feed your kids and you don't have time to read a label but you have plenty of time to argue you don't have time

[deg]

I like the traffic light system and think it should be on more products and needs to be a standardised system throughout products.