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My two sons drink full fat milk and they are not fat. How is banning whole milk in schools going to help fat kids fight the flab?
Surely it is their unhalthy diet at home, their inactive lifestyle, spending hours stuck in front of a TV instead of playing sport and snacking on junk foods that has caused them to become obese.
Will butter be denied next in favour of low-fat watery spreads?
I give my lads organic full fat milk after reading it contained lots of extra nutritional goodness, including Omega 3 to boost brain power. Why can’t schools provide organic milk, it only costs a few pence more? Shouldn’t hospitals be giving this to their patients too?
Milk is a cheap, versatile and essential foodstuff, particularly for young children with growing bones etc. Let’s educate the parents please. The supermarkets to display this info on posters in the store.
P.S. Good food does not necessarily cost a fortune. A bag of chicken nuggets costs the same as a fresh chicken. Which one do children eat more often?
‘Healthy option low-fat spreads’ are in fact not very healthy at all. They contain hydrogenated vegetable oils, also known as trans-fatty acids. These nasty little beasts cause coronary heart disease. They have adverse effects on blood lipid levels – increasing LDL (“bad”) cholesterol while decreasing HDL (“good”) cholesterol. This combined effect on the ratio of LDL to HDL cholesterol is double that of saturated fatty acids.
So eat butter, not margarine. And ignore our nanny state government, who base their policy often on hearsay and flawed/biased scientific research. My daughter drinks whole milk, eats full-fat cheese and butter and will continue to do so, no matter what they say.
AJD, you are absolutely spot on and your daughter will be all the healthier for it too. I imagine the dairy produce in Switzerland is quite delicious.
I meant to add to my post that both my sons are sports mad and very active, though they spend their fair share of time on playstations too.
Also, I believe school milk is in part subsidised by the EU, one of the lesser known benefits.
I wonder if people will start calling Alan Johnson the “Whole Milke Snatcher”?
I couldn’t agree with you more though Ellee. My little boy has whole milk and nothing else (although he is only 1).
Yup it is – school milk is subsidies. Whole milk gets more subsidy than semi-skimmed. Skimmed milk gets none at all. But guess what our elected representatives are trying to do…?
Dizzy – we have more in common than SE18 – I have a 11 month old daughter, 1 in a couple of weeks 🙂