Rob Mclaren

New Food Labelling Regulations Fails To Address High Sugar Content In Taiwanese Food Products

Rob Mclaren
Taiwan’s Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) recently issued a statement reminding vendors who want to label their products as health foods that the limit on free sugar content in registered health food products is 25 grams or 6 teaspoons per serving. But this ultimately does not reduce the issue of the high amount of sugar in Taiwanese food...
EnglishPoliticsSeptember 20177 min read
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Rob Mclaren

Rob decided to travel before starting to teach in New Zealand. After ending up in Korea he decided to teach in Taiwan for a year on his way home. Nine years later he is still in Taiwan and teaching PE at an international school in Hsinchu. Rob completed a Bachelor of Sport and Exercise Science and having nothing better to do he fell into a post graduate diploma in Secondary Teaching. Rob has trained athletes from runners to triathletes and nearly everything in-between over the last 15 years. He is currently conditioning two teams from a local Senior High School and regularly trains clients. His approach to training is scientific with a dose of common sense included. He can be contacted at [email protected].