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Role models? What good are role models when your parents buy the food? Children get their eating habits at home.

If they arent taught well there, and have a proper diet on hand, role models wont be helping much unless its for tennis shoes and clothing.

Because most kids get exactly what they want these days due to peer pressure, advertising, whining, inept parenting etc...Like it or not this celebrity obssessed culture does impact what kids do, look at trends in clothing and vanishing waist lines.

[Charryith]

thumbs up on the absent packet of crisps IMO

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When both parents work and you have kids, you dont get to spend that much time with them. Many parents dont want their time with their kids spent fighting and disciplining so they give in to their every wish.

Sometimes you are just too tired too and its easier to give in. Its also easier to stop and get a bag of burgers or bucket of chicken or to call the pizza delivery after working all day than to go home and cook.

I am not excusing the behavior but I understand it having raised 2 of my own while working 60 hour weeks. I did takeout more often than I liked but my kids are both pretty healthy eaters because I cooked alot on my days off and made meals ahead for the days I worked.

People need to be motivated to do things like that. Just seeing the pudgy kid in front of the tv munching chips should be proper motivation..sadly, for many, its not.

[Leaters]

I know the government like to do something about school dinners and the health of the nation and that's great, but this is a little too far IMO. A ban just for having two snacks? [thumbdown] So pathetic.

Alot of things are being done about healthy eating these days and i'm always cautious about what I eat these days (always avoid the crap like large quantities of saturated fats for example), but to force the nation just to eat more healthy foods all the time gets boring far too quickly for alot of people, and it's not long until they're back to their old ways. Despite the good efforts done, I don't think it'll be enough to overcome people's natural eating habits.

[teridbruse]

I know the government like to do something about school dinners and the health of the nation and that's great, but this is a little too far IMO. A ban just for having two snacks? [thumbdown] So pathetic.

Alot of things are being done about healthy eating these days and i'm always cautious about what I eat these days (always avoid the crap like large quantities of saturated fats for example), but to force the nation just to eat more healthy foods all the time gets boring far too quickly for alot of people, and it's not long until they're back to their old ways. Despite the good efforts done, I don't think it'll be enough to overcome people's natural eating habits.

I find heathy food tastes much better than junk food. Maybe you are just use to the low fat crap that is around at the moment (where they remove a lot of the flavour from the food to make it low fat).

[Leaters]

I find heathy food tastes much better than junk food. Maybe you are just use to the low fat crap that is around at the moment (where they remove a lot of the flavour from the food to make it low fat).

I'd probably agree to some extent. There are definately alot of tasteful options out there that doesn't come loaded with fat and that's what I tend to choose, which involves stuff like pasta, chicken... etc. I do binge myself on the odd take away or two every now and again (places like McDonalds are always avoided), but who doesn't?

[rNr5Di3S]

UK school lunches should be funded by taxes so everyone got a free meal, then you wouldn't be in this mess.

[gdjfhdf]

That is so dumb it's funny.

Do you guys really think your government or other institutions should dictate every action in your daily lives?

Wow,I'm glad I have a sense of responsibility for my own actions.

[furious1]

UK school lunches should be funded by taxes so everyone got a free meal, then you wouldn't be in this mess.

yay more taxes! everyone always loves that!

That is so dumb it's funny.

Do you guys really think your government or other institutions should dictate every action in your daily lives?

Wow,I'm glad I have a sense of responsibility for my own actions.

agreed

[illilmicy]

A boy aged 10 has been banned from his school dining hall because his packed lunch broke the government's healthy eating guidelines.

Ryan's lunch consisted of a sandwich, fruit, fromage frais, cake, mini cheese biscuits and a bottle of water. The cake and the biscuits broke the snack limit. They were discovered when a teacher checked his lunch box.

Crikey, I didnt realise things were going to this extreme over healthy eating concerns! [shocked]

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...4/nlunch14.xml

There you go left wing... socialism at it's finest. Now the government decides what you can have in your lunch.
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[teridbruse]

There you go left wing... socialism at it's finest. Now the government decides what you can have in your lunch.

Just to get this straight, there are many places in the US that have similar policies about what kids should be eating at school.

But it is the school that is deciding what the kid should eat in this case, not the gov.

[furious1]

Just to get this straight, there are many places in the US that have similar policies about what kids should be eating at school.

But it is the school that is deciding what the kid should eat in this case, not the gov.

you still live in a nanny state

does the govt tell you your bed time too?

[teridbruse]

you still live in a nanny state

does the govt tell you your bed time too?

Don't be stupid, only my mum tells me when to go to bed.

[movlabs]

Ha I grew up eating pizza and cheez-its at school. I ended up forcing myself to eat sandwiches and a cup of fruit with water my entire senior year of HS though... I ate pizza only on fridays. I ended up 20 or so lbs underweight. I think what I did was insane, more unhealthy than overweight IMO. You shouldn't be so strict on rules for what kids eat.... at least not suddenly or so severe. If that school were in the US, I'd sue the **** out of the school board and county

[Dilangfh]

[surrender]

Ill swap you my completed English homework for your cake.... what ya say?!

So sweets, cakes and snackes are the future drugs? Great, were gonna get fat homeless people on our streets now!!!!

MOVE OVER DRUNKS AND DRUGS!

[Leaters]

Don't be stupid, only my mum tells me when to go to bed.

Even at your age?

[spaxiaroorbes]

Atleast he had a bottle of water, ffs.

[Rexaviennatutr]

Even at your age?

Especially at his age.

[kennyguitar]

Hang on, this is complete bull. Do they take into consideration the size of the sandwich, or it's contents?

If a person turns up with a subway, dripping with meatballs and cheese isn't comparable to a small brown sandwich with a slice of ham and salad.

Unless they compare like for like, it's completely flawed argument and easily bypassable with a little prethought as to what to put in there.

Hell, I'd have a mars bar sandwich. Just taking out the mars bars as and when required.

I an't done nofin guv.

[amannddo]

I think this is just a knee-jerk reaction and I agree that it is drastic. And since when guidelines are enforced? They're merely guidelines not laws.