work mums = fat kids

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Working mums' 'child weight risk'

Good grief. Who writes this crap, and why does he/she still have a job.

I wonder if it's because people who make less than £11,000 can't aford to buy any food.

MAybe this says more about the quality of food offered in nurseries, and maybe the journalist ought to address that rather than hap on about working mums (or rather working parents)

just another bleedin excuse to have a go at working parents and needlessly lambast them for all manner of societal illness and any other thing too

But, it isn't having a go at working parents. It is specifically directed at working mums.

Besides I can't really get me head round how my working would contribute to my kids being overweight (which they aren't). I am dedicated to my work (about 50 hours per week in the office), but I am the food geschtapo. If it was up to me there wouldn't be so much as a crumb of white bread in the house, and no body would ever dare put nutrasweet in my kids drink or medicine.

We have a new nanny who has not yet quite grasped all the eating rules (which is fine she has only been with us a couple of weeks) and I found a bottle of squash with nutasweet in it in the fridge this weekend. Want to know what I did? I poured it out. Real juice, please. Not sugar loaded chemical water.

Well,I've never heard of the International Journal of Obesity but certainly the Institute of Child Health is very well respected.

Well, maybe we should say, "Fat kids drive mums to work longer hours"

LOL at article. As if.

nurseries do not have to maintain any mandatory standards about what they serve the children, unlike schools there is no statutory guidance...so that is worth noting

Really? That's appalling. I should think it's more important for toddlers than anyone.

I also find it particularly odd that the article uses £33,000 like that's a high income family.

Is this true? I cannot see it myself. There is not a single obese child at my dcs' nursery (parents must surely earn more than £22K). Shop in Sainsbo and then shop in Asda and compare the customers' girth. The survey results seem counterintuitive.

£33k family income is not high (well not in london) that would not buy you a lock up garage

for privately run and voluntary sector nurseries there are no mandatory enforceable standards, only in state maintained provision for over 5's

Govt recommendadtions as follows:

Primary schools will be required to follow new ?food based? and ?nutrient based? standards.

Secondary schools will be required to follow new ?food based? and ?nutrient based? standards.

Maintained Special schools will be required to follow new ?food based? and ?nutrient based? standards (implementation September 2009). The regulations do not apply to food provided at maintained special schools after school hours or at the weekend.

Maintained Nursery schools will be required to follow the existing ?food based? standards introduced in 2001.

Non-Maintained Nursery Settings ? private and voluntary sector ? Not covered by the standards.