healthy food it aint rocket science is it?

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read this \link{http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,173-2065481,00.html\over lunch}
why d o poeple wtill not knwo how to cook themselves normal healthy food

why do they have to buy branded type of yogutry things or weiry "Healthier than ever " bread"

ok we may not eat helthily all the time but we dont need to buy food that makes us healthy do we?

heard lady on tv today claiming she had to feed her kids ready meals because she could not afford the gas bils to cook her own food - I bet maths was never her strong point !

But without 'healthy food' the entire marketing industry would collapse.

Actimel has some unfeasibly enormous amount of sugar in it...but keeps hundreds of marketing, advertising and PR people in gainful employment, therefore healthy food is a boon to society.

because people are often unutterably stupid

chuh - I feed my ds petit filou but consider it as crap food. It ain't healthy. Give me full fat milk, brown bread, white bread but none of that other nonsense. 'Best of both...?' wtf

because most people are wazzocks

Even if you have only half a brain cell, you know what you SHOULD be eating.
Even if you don't EAT it, you KNOW.
Its not rocket science - or iceberg, cos science, is it ?

As an aside, I heard a thing about dentistry over lunch, and a dentist on the prog was giving a 3 yo a filling. I was shocked tbh. This is surely not normal and must be the direct result of too much sugar in the childs diet?

Trouble is, bad diet is self-perpetuating through generations - I was brought up on McD's and I'm alright etc. Lack of education once again.

Not sure if this is relevant but I can never understand why people buy frozen potato products like waffles. It's so easy to boil a pototo and mash it, or slice, drizzle with olive oil and bung in the oven.

Because people are lazy
and let other people do their thinking for them.

Rather than say
'Is this food healthy? How can I tell?', using brain and reading ingredients, they say
'Oh, this food must be healthy because it says Healthy on the packaging'

At the risk of introducing another hot topic, if proper thinking rather than parroty test-passing was taught in school, people might work things out better for themselves.

rant over
got to go and eat a healthy (and fairly traded) banana

NB - RachD - roquette science

love it!

LilaM My DS has had a filling he is nearly 5 now. He had a gap where food gets stuck and cannot be removed very easily even with brushing. He's not the easiest to brush the teeth of anyway.

He eats loads of fruit and veg even raw broccoli and carrots. Yes he does have sweets and even the odd dreaded McDonalds but not very often. The dentist said it was unlucky and nothing we were doing or his diet. It is really depressing as DP has had a lot of trouble with his teeth and we are quite hot on looking after DS's teeth as a result.

Of course you could compare this to my sister where 2 of her 5 children have had 8 of their baby teeth removed from where they rotted who fed them loads of coke etc.

True, people are lazy. But the lack of education sometimes amazes me. For example, how many people on here regard potato as a vegetable?

So what is it - a fruit?

I mean, I know cucumber and tomatoes and peppers are Surprise Fruit, but I never would have expected a spud!

Petit fucking Filous?! Oh FGS.

No it is not a fruit. It is often classed as a veg because it grown in the ground. But, nutritionally speaking it's a starch. It belongs in the pasta/bread/rice group. And, incidentally, it is a very simple starch which doesn't have much nutrition in is. Whole grains are better.

I swear to God I know peol who think chips count as a veg.

Um...whats the right answer, uwila? I pride myself on my food fascism. I'm getting all panicky that I might get the answer wrong...

Don't forget tomato sauce is a vegetable if you are in America.

Which is WRONG WRONG WRONG it is a FRUIT.

What's wrong with petit filous?

they are full of sugar CG and arent near as healthy as the advertisers would like us to believe.

dd1 loves petit filous. she doesn't eat any sweeties of any sort other than my fab home baking. so i don't see what's wrong w/a petit filous after tea.

Nothing, if you like sugar.

Have heard it likened to "sprinkling sugar on babies gums" - the fact they're often used as a first food for 4 month old babies is just stupid, IMO. Gives them a taste for stupidly sweet food when they'd eat far less sweet things perfectly well if they were only given the chance.

But for older children - ach, why not. Better than bastard Haribo sweets.

My dd loves them and I give her one every day because she won't drink enough milk. I thought I was doing a good thing. I knew they had a bit of sugar in them but she doesn't have anything else that is sugary.

Loads of vit c in a spud though uwila.

Eh? I'm American. Tomato sauce is not a veg. I believe if it had the seeds in the middle then it's a fruit (like tomatoes and cucumbers).

The answer is that potatoes belong in the bread/grains group. But really they are more of a simple starch.