To be seriously peed at school for their 'healthy eating' brainwashing???

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Ok DD is 7, they've obviously been covering healthy eating in school for a while, she often comments on things that are good for you and is pleased with herself when she eats healthy stuff. All good and fine with me. Today kids out in street and one of the mums hands out some crisps, just packets of plain wlkers things, no problem with me, everything in moderation is what I go with. DD comes in hands me the crisps saying she doesn't want them, and can she have some money to get snack a jacks from the shop < I look at her like this. Why? 'because Mrs X says crisps have got too much fat in them and they're reeeeally bad for you, snack a jacks don't have loads of fat in them and they're nearly just like crisps so you can eat them without getting fat'
DD is the teeniest thing, I often wonder how she manages to stay stood up she's so bloody skinny and she's fretting about foods that are going to make her fat
Would you say something to school about this or just keep reinforcing the everything in moderation as part of healthy diet thing at home?

I'd say something to school. Snack a Jacks aren't healthier than crisps - not unless you need to lose weight, which your DD clearly doesn't and isn't an agenda that should be pushed in schools anyway. They're full of salt & flavourings. The teacher is giving bad nutritional advice.

. poor thing. I would say something to the school. Children shouldn't be worrying about the fat content of food, especially not at this age. She should learn about a balanced diet though, she can eat whatever she wants but in moderation. It's no wonder children are becoming anorexic if they are being told this at school. I think the school nurse should be teaching the teachers.

So it's not healthy eating the school is pushing, it's dieting for children

I would ask the school exactly how they're phrasing things - it might just be that several consequences of overdoing the crisps were mentioned, nad that's the only one dd picked up on.

explain that healhty doesn't mean no fat. nor is dieting healthy (unless you NEED to lose wait)

i would be quite annoyed at this as well. i would certainly speak to school

doesn't sound as though the school is teaching the healthy eating thing properly. a bag of crisps every now and again is fine, as OP says, everything in moderation and no talk about getting fat, it's ridiculous. i would say something to the school, it's a lesson kids need to get right early in life otherwise it follows them round for the whole of their lives. if your DD grows up to deprive herself of things completely then she'll just want them even more.

It's amazing how many supposedly intelligent people get muddled between 'dieting' and 'eating healthily' and it sounds like the teacher is one of those. I remember an ex- colleague looking at meringues in the cafe and saying 'Oh, those are really good for you aren't they?'. "No, but they're low in fat" I replied "Yeah, that's what I mean. They're good, not naughty.". She was an Oxbridge graduate FFS.

similar thing happened to me when dd1 was covering healthy eating at her nursery, i had already explained to her nuresry that dd1 doesnt eat much and is under a specialist about her low weight and they told her she shouldnt eat too many sausages as they make you fat! she is 4 ffs. and sausages at the time were the only sort of protien or fat she would eat!!! i had been advised by pead dietician to feed her things like sausages and eggs as much as possible then bloody nursery tells her she shouldnt eat them!!

i had a word with the teacher there who gave a talk to all the kids in dd1s group about how it is important to eat a range of foods and that no food is 'bad' there are just foods that you limit. she also explained the importance of having a varied diet (dd1 lives off fruit and veg and very little else)

luckily her refusing to eat sausages because they are bad was just a phase and she will eat them again now but not as much as she did before. its home made burgers atm!

YANBU

we had the same with cheese - cheese was very bad according to school far too much fat apparently

dd1 is such a stick insect girl that even adjustable waist trousers are too lose when pulled in tight! she needs high calorie diet

Thanks everyone, I wasn't sure if going to the school was an overreaction or not. I will speak to teacher when they start back next week.
Have already had talk with dd about healthy diets meaning you get a bit of everything and crisps are fine as long as you're not eating them all the time. She ate them after that
Just makes me so sad that it would even enter the head of a child so young to question the content of what they're eating

I wonder if they teach her that nutrasweet is better than sugar?

Our school is pretty hypocritical on nutrition. (I expect most are) We get bits in the newsletter about don't send crisp or choc because we promote healthy eating, and the she runs out of class where this a big table with a bake sale. Oh no, she's not going to want any of that cake you are selling. SO, chocolate cake is more nutritious at 3:15 than it is at 12:00???

Rice cakes (including snack a jacks) are extremely high GL. So depending on your POV, they could be seen as less healthy than crisps.

IMO, kids know what to eat, it's when they get home things go to pot.

Everything in moderation, schools are obsessed. They should be careful not to encourage eating disorders, wonder if we sill see a turnaround by the govt in years to come?

Our school has cake sales all the time, what's that about? What about an arts n craft/plant whatever sale?

Double standards.

I'm sure the op's dd will be ok. Can you blame her for getting confused?

DD said to me the other day "Ribena is a healthy drink, Mummy." I said "Who told you that?" She said, "Jack." I said "Well, tell Jack his is mistaken."

Teachers are no more clued in about healthy eating than most. I will never forget the horror I induced in the staff room when I brought whole fat milk for the coffee. These were all women who ate several biscuits with each drink yet thought my whole fat milk habit was courting death.

This was the same school that built a MacDonalds home corner in the reception class and thought I was barking mad when I said I thought it was pants.

They should be teaching everything in moderation.

snack a jacks are full of monosodium glutamate

google it, print it off and show the side effects to the teacher. racing heartbeat etc.

actually, i wouldn't bother, but it is ridiculous. just tell DD that you don't agree and that all food is ok as long as you don't eat too much of it and eat a variety.

as i say to DD1 "if all you eat is cheese you are going to look like a piece of cheese".

am rambling.

Luckily promoting healthy eating doesn't extend to the staff room. OK we have the token fruit bowl but it's usually buried under a mountain of cakes and biscuits that lovely parents bring in for us. Love you all!!

Alot of the teaching staff at my dd's school are overweight, now I'm not having a go, merely an observation. just referencing the healthy eating in school line.

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