Any nutritionists around? I want to know the effects of a carbohidrate based diet

[Pedigree]

I will describe the diet as follows:

• breakfast: sugary cereal no milk, or croissant , or 2 digestive biscuits, (all served with half a cup of apple juice)
• snack: two digestive biscuits served with squash or half a cup of apple/orange juice
• Lunch : a choice of sausage roll or meat paste sandwich, served with a packet of crisps or mini cheddars, and a small packet of biscuits, and half a cup of apple juice
• Dinner: 3 fish/chiken fingers or a burger with half patty of meat served with chips and a tbsp of carrots; or 6 inch cheese pizza. All served with half a cup of apple juice.

No other products, protein, vegetables, dairy or fruit are regular part of the diet.

Any nutritionists around who could help me to understand the effects of such diet if followed over 3 years by a young child?

It doesn't sound good although I am not a nutirionist, but not too different from the limited diets many chidlren have and in some areas more children are fat than not these days so probably many of them are having that kind of diet. What about trying to go for a typical original British diet of bacon and eggs at breakfast and then a bit of protein and carb at lunch - not sausage roll and meat paste! and at dinner some real protein not the fingers?

In some classes in the UK that diet is just appalling but in others it will be standard. Sadly your class in the UK determines largely how well you are fed on the whole.

The child is remarkably thin and tall but my guess is that that is due to small portions and genes more than anything else, The child refuse to eat anything else, and has tantrums if parent insists in giving him other foods.

Actually, forgot to add, in terms of dairy, he is happy to eat whippy ice cream. He also eats spaguetti hoops as long as they come from a tin.

I will not go into the issue of class, but I understand where are you comming from.

Btw, my friend is far from being happy with the diet but is concerned about upsetting the child, I'm trying to get some arguments to help them see that, despite the rantrums, it is worth it to persevere.

Tantrums, not rantrums.

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