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Getting Singaporeans to eat healthier
From whole grains to less sugar, Singaporeans are eating healthier
A push to eat more wholegrains and veggies. A blitz to cut down on oil and sugar intake. And now, the target is trans fats. Insight looks at the effort to get Singaporeans eating healthier and the impact they've had.
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Patrons having their meals at a foodcourt. Six in 10 people in Singapore eat out at least four times a week.
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The surge in demand for wholegrain rice here about three years ago caught the Thai exporters by surprise, resulting in a temporary shortage of the healthier staple.
But there is now a steady supply as the interest in the more nutritious brown or red rice turned out not to be a flash-in-the-pan fad, and instead grew steadily, accounting now for about 8 per cent of all rice eaten here.
