healthier school meals yes/no

LadyDay · (#1 (**permalink**))

http://www.schoolfoodtrust.org.uk/?g...FQ-6Qgod9Hnj7A

The School Food Trust has advised government Ministers that schools should stop selling confectionery, crisps and fizzy drinks to prevent childhood obesity spiralling out of control and to improve children's health through a better balanced diet during the school day.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/ma...8/nmeals16.xml

A group of mothers has started delivering fast food through a school's fence in protest at the campaign for healthier school meals.

http://www.jamieoliver.com/schooldinners/

What we eat affects everything: our mood, behaviour, health, growth, even our ability to concentrate. A lunchtime school meal should provide a growing child with one third of their daily nutritional intake.

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now as some of you may know, there are some mum's winging their kids cant eat junk food at school. so there doing trolley runt o the ocal chippy and selling food THROUGH SCHOOL GATES (trespassing). i feel that the jamie oliver campaign was one of the best for kids in england.

would you rather your child eat deep fried chips and burgers or fruit veg and a hot meal cooked fresh on the day

what is your opinions of these women who are going against the new healthy mealoptions

i feel that if they dont want their kids to eat the school offering to make them a packed lunch. i also feel that they are teaching their kids that rules are there to be broken and that if you dont like something do the opposite regardless of the consequences. if my child was at a school and i heard strange women selling food from the chippy to them through school gates i would have the police deal with this. un acceptable.

what are your opinions

what about what these mums are teaching their kids about rules

Saida.M · (#2 (**permalink**))

Sorry butI think this 'healthy eating' campaign is highly overated and highly unrealistic. Even dieticians who cater for slimmers - most of them would not denythe dietersSOME fatty foods.

People have to remember that we eat to live, we also have to eat for life so its got to be nice.Asking our children toeat totally healthy 100% of time and 24/7 is stupid.

It should never be a question of either/or but a question of moderation and balance.

My God if all the foods that we are not suppose to eat were that badthey should not be allowed to sell them in the first place.And in that casepeople should be attacking the Govt. not the children.

HLF · (#3 (**permalink**))

With the schools offering more healthy options, I'm sure it could be said that parents won't be able to transfer any blame to schools for the effects of an improper diet. When I read the topic heading, I immediately thought about price. Strangely enough today, sometimes it costs more to eat healther, especially products specifically designed to be healthy. Fruit and vegtables are still pretty affordable, but then there's organically grown (costs more) and conventional (which can are genetically modified).

I would think kids would learn healthy eating habits from home, but a lot of teachings and training aren't taught at home like it use to be. I might have been lucky, but eating habits do have a tendency to follow us throughout our lifetimes and even pass down to our children.

About foods we are suppose/not suppose to eat and their availability, the society that people in the "developed" world operates in is a really messed up world. For most food manufacturers, the bottom line isn't providing quality life/health sustaining foods, it's profit at the expense of quality. It enriches the saying, "You get what you pay for."+ "You are what you eat." On both sides (manufacturer/consumer) it seems that most are satisfied with quantity over quality.

Stuff like this makes one start to notice "cause and effect" chains. For example, people do spend less for a lot more, but the food isn't nutrient rich. Kids grow up eating the stuff because it "tastes good" but does not properly feed their body to operate like it should, at a high level. For better or worse, obese or not, the kids continue to eat the foods, in the twenties/thirties the effects start manifesting big time, high blood pressure, cholesterol, etc. That causes for more doctor visits. How many doctors "cure" "disorders" or sicknesses likes these rather than prescribe medicine to repress the symptoms? All that would have to be done would be to change up the diet, take out this, add a little more of that. How many doctors say to do that? Either way, the doctors keep a job by the visits and the drug companies get paid for your prescription. Their financial "gain" and your holistic well-being/health and financial loss.

LadyDay · (#4 (**permalink**))

eating habits are learnt at home

HLF · (#5 (**permalink**))

LadyDay wrote:

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eating habits are learnt at home

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True. Even the lack of healthy eating habits come from the absence during home training. I know a lady that is upwards of 50 that had a minor stroke from eating out all the time unhealthy nutrient-lacking foods. The same lady while in the hospital tried to get people to bring her the same food while she was in the hospital!! Even out of the hospital she has not changed her eating habits, besides what her husband has restricted. I think it is insane that after being in the hospital and not liking it, not to mention the minorstroke itself, would be enough to want to change....but no-way; some are stubborn to a life-critical fault.

Tahliba · (#6 (**permalink**))

Actually the story about the mothers providing takeaways over the fence was media distortion once again.

The issues with that school was there was very limited seating area, the caters were not prepared for the changes and children were queing up for long periods with only half hour for lunch (resulting in many going without) And to top it off, the quality of the food was extremely bad.

But none of the above and the other issues raised by the children and parents of these schools made for good reading.

ChubbiChix · (#7 (**permalink**))

Smuggling food through the schools fence, how stupid is that? They should serve more healthier foods in schools, not neccessarily less but more healthier food options.

Incognito · (#8 (**permalink**))

By all means yes. But as always let's start with healthier meals at home - and if the school meals are that bad send the children to school with a packed lunch.