As the adage goes, we are what we eat. And it would seem that many of us have paid the price for our poor diet, given that the UAE has among the world’s highest rates of obesity and type 2 diabetes.
Given that eating habits start at a young age, attention has turned to the food children eat at school. The debate centres around what kinds of food is available in school canteens and the types of lunches children bring from home.
To taste public opinion on this issue, we asked 4,408 TaskSpotting users questions about children’s eating habits.
TaskSpotting describes itself as the region’s only advocate marketing platform and pitches our questions to its app community who typically engage with brands to create content, spread awareness and share feedback.
Most of the respondents – 76 per cent – believed that children in the UAE do not have a healthy overall diet. Even more, 87 per cent, thought that school canteens should only serve healthy foods, and a majority of app users said fast-food deliveries to school pupils ought to be banned.
Just over half of the respondents thought that the proposed tax on fizzy drinks would help improve children’s health.
