IanD
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With my "Balance" magazine came the latest "Change for Life" booklet "Smart Swaps". The emphasis is, of course to minimise the twin evils, fat & sugar, in our diet.
Children under 2 are allowed full cream milk, 2-5 semi-skimmed & over 5 skimmed or 1% fat milk.
Vegetables are recommended as the "main event" but what vegetables? And how do you pack vegetables into their lunch box? Children need their calories, & chocolate provides about 10 times the energy of carrots, wt/wt.
I'm into grandchildren now, but when I was a child, "proper food" was provided with the encouragement to eat the fat. What chance have today's children got of learning good eating habits (apart from avoiding sweets) and so avoiding the obesity, with all its problems, that they see as an epidemic?
I quote from a contributor to Dr Briffa:
Children under 2 are allowed full cream milk, 2-5 semi-skimmed & over 5 skimmed or 1% fat milk.
Vegetables are recommended as the "main event" but what vegetables? And how do you pack vegetables into their lunch box? Children need their calories, & chocolate provides about 10 times the energy of carrots, wt/wt.
I'm into grandchildren now, but when I was a child, "proper food" was provided with the encouragement to eat the fat. What chance have today's children got of learning good eating habits (apart from avoiding sweets) and so avoiding the obesity, with all its problems, that they see as an epidemic?
I quote from a contributor to Dr Briffa:
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