Rejected petition Prevent the government from making restaurant groups print calories on menus

Printing calories on menus will be very dangerous for people with eating disorders and will cause more harm than good, printing calories will hurt them more than it will prevent obesity

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Counting calories does not work and can create an unhealthy relationship to food, especially for those who already have eating disorders. Eating less and moving more may work for short term weight loss but the body fights back against it with a slowing metabolism and rising hunger. Research suggests that between 1.24 and 3.4 million people in the U.K. suffer from an eating disorder. Eating disorders have the highest mortality rates among psychiatric disorders, calorie counting will severely affect this group of people.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/332940

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Date submitted 28 July 2020
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