Cheese is now a junk food.

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I read a tiny piece in the Independent yesterday - not much info but basically the food advisory council has decided that cheese is less healthy than ...well...just about anything incl crisps. Not sure quite what the truth is but does anyone else have any more info.

But if this is an accurate story "Cheese as junk food" ....does anyone else think this is too stupid for words?

Learn something new everyday Martianbishop! I did not know that.

Wallace and Grommit - just been BANNED!!!

According to an interview on the Today programme on Tuesday, the reason it was being banned was that a "portion size" is defined as 100 grammes. 100 grammes of most cheese contains a lot of fat and so cheese has been deemed to be unhealthy even though very few people would eat 100 grammes at one time. What a mad world.

cheese is good for you. my mother is quite adamant

she lives off it.

although she is insane - but i dont think thats becuase of the cheese.

Me banned?!

PS Name doesn't really have anything to do with Wallace and Grommit...

Me banned?!

PS Name doesn't really have anything to do with Wallace and Grommit...

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Glad I'm not the only one who thinks it's stupid. My children don't eat low-fat anything nor will they until they stop growing unless they start getting overweight. Now sugar and processed foods...another matter.

Yes I know the milk is not a natural product for the human body after a few years of age but most of the disadvantages come from milk - I beleive it's the lactose that causes the problems - not cheese or butter. It just seems like someone has seen the fat content of cheese and labelled it as 'unhealty' without actually looking at the whole picture.

It's a load of rubbish. That's my completely uneducated opinion anyway.

closetslob - what is ? Cheese or the new 'advice?

Anyway I thought that junk food is only a food that contains empty calories and potentially harmful additives - not something that packs a lot of nutrition for it's fat.

oops, yes, I meant the 'advice'

Cheese is wonderful wonderful stuff that I cann ot live without and would worhsip at the alter of.

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This is bonkers.

I was reading about Tesco, Kelloggs et al lobbying hard against the traffic light system and thinking 'well they would be, wouldn't they?', but if this is the way it works it has some bonkers results.

Isn't the sugar content of dried fruit very high? Will that be given a red light? Presumably fresh fruit will escape because it's high sugar content is proportionately smaller than the water content?

Uuurgh to the idea of children growing up fed low-fat cheddar and never tasting real cheese.

How on earth did we get into such a state about food?

Apparently chicken nuggets escape the ban, including those made by Mr. McDonald.

blu - maybe because we have too much food, too few ways of naturally burning up calories and not enough self-control so we end up fetishising food rather than treating it simply a means to and end which, if we're lucky, is also enjoyable. Doesn't help that the cheapest is the least healthy usually - also the most available - our nearest convenience store has heaps of crisps, biscuits and sweets but no veg, fruit or anything else that is fresh.

Really think that it would help if children were taught to cook. Cooking lessons are just as valuable, if not more so, than say, Design and Technology. I would prefer my kids were learning to cook, than learning how to make a "Ghostbusting machine" in D&T. (As per DD's last "project".) Nothing fancy; just taught how to put together a healthy meal. Unfortunately, it seems that although it's cheaper to make a large casserole for your family, than buy 4 ready meals, I reckon many people don't know how to.

Obv, I will teach my own kids what I know, but for those parents who don't have the knowledge, their kids are going to miss out.

Without cheese I don't think I would ever eat.

Yesterday's lunch - reheated pasta bake with cheese topping.

Yesterday's dinner - cheese omelette.

Today's lunch - 2 cheese toasties.

O.k. I don't normally eat cheese at every meal but I do snack on cheese all the time and feel the fridge would be a poorer place without it.

Agree about cooking in schools though.

Only one secondary school out of four in this area ( a girls school) offers cookery.
The others cite no teachers as the reason.

Very sad. I still have my "domestic science" and "home economics" books. They are full of wonderful, simple recipes, diagrams of "how to sew on a button" and "how to wire a plug".

Surely some sort of domestic class would be a good idea. Doesn't have to be all girlie sewing aprons and stuff. Just learning how to do useful things around the home - both traditional "blue" and "pink" jobs.

I wish I'd been taught how to put up a shelf, for example.

Gosh, I'm really, seriously off topic now.

what a load of complete arse

Cheese makes up a huge part of my diet. I cannot, not, not, NOT NOT believe it is bad.

And I shan't.

What a load of bollocks.

Surely its better for teeth at least to have a piece of cheese as a snack rather than sweets. Moderation in all things!!

oh ffs

and at the moment it's detox this, detox that, have some berries for lunch and fresh air for dinner yadda yadda

the world has gone mad, mad I tell you

low fat cheese or anything low fat is food of the devil imo

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