Six-year-old schoolboy suspended for having Mini Cheddars in his lunchbox...
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Banning mini cheddars in favor of sugar-laden fruit doesn't really tackle the issue of obesity.
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Mini cheddars and hula hoops are relatively healthy snacks. They have no added preservatives or additives and are made using a relatively healthy method.
But very draconian to be telling children that they can only eat healthy food, people should have the right to be fat if they want to. The schools or the state have no right in telling people they have to be healthy. It starts in schools and like the german nazis did with their government schools. They teach a specific brand of socialist marxist environmentalism to all the children in a very dogmatic way. So that when they leave they are all do gooder liberal pro-state anti-capitalist socialist. Its like a little factory for obedient government slaves.
Heaven forbid some fatty kid becomes a drain on the NHS when he gets older, then the state (debt) will have to pay for his lipo suction. They are only thinking long term as a collective. This is the result of socialist healthcare, they start now with the government slaves as young as 4, telling them that they have to do to reduce costs for the nhs when they are older.
But very draconian to be telling children that they can only eat healthy food, people should have the right to be fat if they want to. The schools or the state have no right in telling people they have to be healthy. It starts in schools and like the german nazis did with their government schools. They teach a specific brand of socialist marxist environmentalism to all the children in a very dogmatic way. So that when they leave they are all do gooder liberal pro-state anti-capitalist socialist. Its like a little factory for obedient government slaves.
Heaven forbid some fatty kid becomes a drain on the NHS when he gets older, then the state (debt) will have to pay for his lipo suction. They are only thinking long term as a collective. This is the result of socialist healthcare, they start now with the government slaves as young as 4, telling them that they have to do to reduce costs for the nhs when they are older.
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Relative to what?!
Mini cheddars are much more unhealthy than most crisps - contain a fair dose of sugar and glucose syrup, are around twice as salty as walkers ready salted, and contain 5 times (!) the saturated fat
You help illustrate the problem, though - many people are too uneducated to know what actually is a healthy food. In the case in point, the school was trying to educate the parents - but they refused to be educated.
Ignoring the crow-barred foil-hat politics; the choice to be fat is not one a child has the full capacity to either rationally decide for themselves, nor have the autonomy to control for themselves.
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I think the issue here that would avoid these kinds of rules and conflicts is good diet from birth. There are too many people from what I have seen who take the easy route to child nutrition. Instead of simply using a blender and patience feeding their children as they are weaned to give the infant a varied palate they reach for sugar loaded jars and tins. This in turn narrows the child's taste in later life and makes a good diet harder to achieve. There is nothing wrong with the odd jar or tin when in a rush but I personally don't like processed food and everything in moderation.
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I don't think it's particularly useful to think of foods as healthy or unhealthy in isolation. Mini cheddars are 1/3 fat and 1/3 carbs, so if you have a meal low on carbs and fat then it's just as healthy as any other component. If the rest of the meal is high in other components, then that snack will take it out of balance.
As for additives or preservatives, the evidence doesn't show that this really affects health in a significant way.
True this, my kids love broccoli and sprouts and can't understand why some vege have a bad rep, they blame kids tv as kids on tv never like sprouts or broccoli.
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There is no glucose syrup in cheddars and low sugar, they are far healthier than all the brands of crisps apart from hula hoops which is the most healthy crisp like snack.
I have been eating cheddars for years and would be surprised to find out now they have hfcs in them as i avoid that.
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Actually the way your body metabolises fruit sugars doesn't cause the massive insulin spikes that is caused by poor refined carbohydrates/sugars.
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How can knowledge of one meal per day, five days per week inform a decision as to whether the diet is balanced or not? Perhaps breakfast and dinner should be approved by the school as well?
"Treats" can quite easily form part of a balanced diet and provision of that diet is the responsibility of the parent. If the parent is sending the child in with lard and sugar every day, wider action is required than just confiscating lunch.
How has this episode improved the health of the child in question? How does a healthy meal for 5 meals out of 21 (with the potential for 16 unhealthy ones) make that much difference?
Provide help and guidance to the parents that just don't know, leave alone those that do know (even if they provide a little treat) and take action against those parents who are doing a poor job. Lumping the good parents in with the bad helps nobody.
Does the state really believe that expulsion is in the best interests of the child? Are we going to get better outcomes by expelling children who have a treat in their lunch box? No. The child has been punished because of a difference of opinion between school and parent. Way to go.
The child can't leave the premises so it's the same thing effectively.
With rumours about 10 hour school days and reduced holidays it appears that the government is intent on replacing parents in all but name. What is so bad about family life and children being allowed to have fun?
You're trolling me now, right?
Stick with the standard ready salted crisps or, even better, lightly salted tortilla chips. Nothing bad in those other than a little salt (less than in all other flavours)
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Indeed, fructose is a very simple CHO chain.
Get out while you still can, the eco nazi's are targetting your liberty!
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All these sort of snacks that are heavily processed and refined are poor in nutrition (even things like Belvita biscuits).
However, the occasional pack of mini cheddars or naughty treat isn't a big deal, if it is occasional (i.e. not every day). However if people get used to eating non-poor foods then so much the better.
However, the occasional pack of mini cheddars or naughty treat isn't a big deal, if it is occasional (i.e. not every day). However if people get used to eating non-poor foods then so much the better.
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ok yes Glucose Syrup but that is not the same as the much more harmful artificial sweetener High Fluctose Corn Syrup. Glucose syrup is just corn syrup.
Normal crisps have MSG and other additives.
I don't see the big deal with being against sugar either, a bit of sugar is not going to make someone fat. What makes someone fat is eating too much food and not doing enough exercise. The whole obsession with health in this country permeates from the nhs and state down in to the schools and its gone a bit over board in my opinion.
Normal crisps have MSG and other additives.
I don't see the big deal with being against sugar either, a bit of sugar is not going to make someone fat. What makes someone fat is eating too much food and not doing enough exercise. The whole obsession with health in this country permeates from the nhs and state down in to the schools and its gone a bit over board in my opinion.
I'll assume this isn't a troll
Walkers ready salted;
http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=254926800
Doritos Lightly salted;
http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=280769900
Your "healthy" mini cheddars;
http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=268621718
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Well I live in the area so have had plenty of coverage on local radio over the last few days.
The school has a healthy eating policy. The parents were well aware.
The parents of the child have on multiple times ignored it, so the child got suspended.
The parents then went to any media source who would listen to them stating that they would not change contents of the lunchbox and publicly slating the school.
The school had no option but to expel the children as if they did not, the whole healthy eating policy would break down.
How could they possibly let the children back after being publicly slated by the parents?
The school has a healthy eating policy. The parents were well aware.
The parents of the child have on multiple times ignored it, so the child got suspended.
The parents then went to any media source who would listen to them stating that they would not change contents of the lunchbox and publicly slating the school.
The school had no option but to expel the children as if they did not, the whole healthy eating policy would break down.
How could they possibly let the children back after being publicly slated by the parents?
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waiting for the 'school burned down by vengeful father after they expelled his child headline'.....