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Could school dinners be healthier?

Written by MrMarmite on Mon Sep 04 11:18:27 BST 2006. 1 recommendations.

To Bobby16, Dudley m 16

The problem here seems to be one of education as well. Was English dropped at the same time as proper food?

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Written by Gantax on Mon Sep 04 11:52:58 BST 2006. 2 recommendations.

I'll wager Cheri Blair wouldn't eat the muk they serve in schools.

Saying that - with the size of her mouth she could possibly fit 50 turkey twizzlers in.

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Written by UKStoo on Mon Sep 04 12:29:08 BST 2006. 1 recommendations.

"Headlice do not "prefer clean healthy hair", they are what makes hair filthy"

esme

errrr.......did you actually ever attend school at all??

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Written by esme_ww on Mon Sep 04 12:25:24 BST 2006. 1 recommendations.

Karen Giles
Headlice do not "prefer clean healthy hair", they are what makes hair filthy.
To say that they are not filth is like saying that a cockroach infested kitchen is clean under the grime. As for infecting others she infected me, which is why I am so keen to have them dealt with so she does NOT infect other children.
I think I have hit a nail on the head (pardon the pun) here. Look to your own life before you criticise me.

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Written by Gantax on Mon Sep 04 12:41:16 BST 2006. 3 recommendations.

Attention BBC moderators

As you have decided to remove my comments re "Steve Irwin", would you please remove all postings related to head lice.

Better still remove the the fully moderated status form all forums - or even better, please tell licence tax payers why they cannot have their say.

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Written by brianeyre on Mon Sep 04 12:40:36 BST 2006. 1 recommendations.

head lice do prefer clean hair, dirty hair suggest the person may not be healthy so the head lice will go for the clean haired person for two reasons; 1. a clean home, 2. higher nutritional properties of the healthy person.

Wrong!! Everyone should know that head lice have evolved to specifically target people with poor hygiene and correspondingly low moral fibre (as a result of their so-called 'healthy' eating).

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Written by emmalt on Mon Sep 04 12:40:31 BST 2006. 1 recommendations.

Stop interfering with what I feed my child and start doing something useful about the filthy children who keep infecting my child with head lice.
[esme_ww]

Everybody knows headlice like clean hair!

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Written by scotbot on Mon Sep 04 12:35:47 BST 2006. 1 recommendations.

"As the Steve Irwin forum is Fully Moderated I have decided to post here instead." ~ Bert Puttocks, Dunham Massey, UK

Yeah, nice one, mate, just go ruin it for the rest of us. I'm not happy that my comments get don't always get published when I want them to, especially as they don't break any rules. But don't cross-post on different threads because you're frustrated with the moderators. Take it up with them.

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Written by Ceannair on Mon Sep 04 12:33:47 BST 2006. 1 recommendations.

Bert - go away.

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Written by Splatfly on Mon Sep 04 12:32:10 BST 2006. 1 recommendations.

head lice do prefer clean hair, dirty hair suggest the person may not be healthy so the head lice will go for the clean haired person for two reasons; 1. a clean home, 2. higher nutritional properties of the healthy person.

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Written by Gantax on Mon Sep 04 12:31:22 BST 2006. 1 recommendations.

As the Steve Irwin forum is Fully Moderated I have decided to post here instead.

Steve Irwin may or may not have been fed on school meals, but he did goad and harass animals.

The man was a manic sensationalist who created a lot of anxiety for many animals.

I feel sorry for the family he has left behind; perhaps he should have thought of them before taking unnecessary risks.

I hope his children enjoy their school meals more than I did.

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Written by Stellarich_B on Mon Sep 04 12:46:01 BST 2006. 1 recommendations.

Have school dinners got that bad, that pupils now prefer or are being served headlice for lunch?

Having read some of these posts, this is the only assumption I can make!!

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Written by Gantax on Mon Sep 04 12:44:29 BST 2006. 1 recommendations.

Hey scotbot

Not frustrated, forum not ruined

You may have over reacted - take a chill pill

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Written by qwerty9 on Mon Sep 04 12:48:17 BST 2006. 1 recommendations.

Headlice do like clean hair. However once they are on the hair IT IS NO LONGER CLEAN. They become the dirt.
The attitude that the hair remains clean, despite the presence of headlice is one of the reasons a hardcore of parents do not take them seriously. Prefering instead to insist that their child has "clean hair".
I would prefer the return of the nitty Nora to address the problem, rather that this cult of, as another poster phrased it "muesli belt malnutrition"

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Written by UKStoo on Mon Sep 04 12:48:27 BST 2006. 1 recommendations.

Bert

Do you actually have anything to say on the subject of unhealthy school meals? any opinions on the subject at all?

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Written by Gantax on Mon Sep 04 12:51:56 BST 2006. 1 recommendations.

To Stoo Macca

"Bert

Do you actually have anything to say on the subject of unhealthy school meals? Any opinions on the subject at all?"

The question I would ask is - Do you?

Check out the readers recommended section - I think you will find I in the top ten recommended posts (7th ) - How about you?

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Written by Peter_Sym on Mon Sep 04 12:44:28 BST 2006. 1 recommendations.

[Mysturji], United Kingdom- I agree totally, however it will be a "self inflicted injury" and they'll have no one but themselves to blame when they can't get IVF or a new hip on the NHS because of their obesity.

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Written by office_tramp on Mon Sep 04 13:29:01 BST 2006. 1 recommendations.

Since they don't eat the healthy stuff anyway, why waste money providing it. Gruel and the lash should make them appreciate their mothers' efforts better.

John Band, Mumbai Expat, India

Excellent, HYS publishing posts advocating beating children! How enlightened.

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Written by johnband on Mon Sep 04 13:14:42 BST 2006. 1 recommendations.

Since they don't eat the healthy stuff anyway, why waste money providing it. Gruel and the lash should make them appreciate their mothers' efforts better.

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Written by brian on Mon Sep 04 09:03:30 BST 2006. 2 recommendations.

I doubt it will make much difference. I'm all for healthy school dinners but the cretinous parents of this country will no doubt ensure their lardy children will be well fed on junk for the rest of the week, whilst continuing to blame the government, supermarkets and everyone else for their lack of parenting skills.

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Written by Webstu1234 on Mon Sep 04 14:15:37 BST 2006. 1 recommendations.

I wish Jamie Oliver would forget about boiling vegetables and boil his head instead.

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Written by Gantax on Mon Sep 04 14:32:05 BST 2006. 1 recommendations.

Can't some of you people see that you are being taken for a ride.

Robby J sits next to me in a office.

He has no kids, and as far as I am aware he is single.

As for me, do you really think my name is Bert Puttocks

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Written by clara-e on Mon Sep 04 14:38:11 BST 2006. 1 recommendations.

Last night I had a takeaway and a bottle of wine. The trick is simply not to repeat this day in, day out.

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Written by clara-e on Mon Sep 04 14:47:13 BST 2006. 1 recommendations.

Last night I had a takeaway and a bottle of wine.
clara e, Reading, United Kingdom

Congratulations, have a sticker.

Stuart S

What, no chocolate drop?

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Written by Webstu1234 on Mon Sep 04 14:41:27 BST 2006. 1 recommendations.

Last night I had a takeaway and a bottle of wine.
clara e, Reading, United Kingdom

Congratulations, have a sticker.

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Written by brianeyre on Mon Sep 04 14:51:49 BST 2006. 1 recommendations.

Come on, BBC.. I'm still waiting for the 'is the Pope a Catholic?' question...

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Written by debbieask on Mon Sep 04 15:16:16 BST 2006. 2 recommendations.

Diana, Croydon

Do you live in a coucil house, and claim all benefits and thats why you find it so easy?

I've had to put a roof over my head since 16 years old, and had a mortgae to pay since 21 years old, so I can't afford to have children, cloth and school them in the CORRECT manner without hand outs which I do not agree with!

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Written by N_O_F_X on Mon Sep 04 15:26:49 BST 2006. 1 recommendations.

My mate, who was fat, liked fizzy drinks. He had them every day. But once, in the play ground he ran too much and puked all the fizzyness up through his nose – funny stuff!

We bullied him for years about that - every time he had a can of drink we were like...oh yeah, and he was like...shut up.

Well it got so bad that he stopped drinking fizzy drinks, within a year he had lost like a stone or something, looked semi-healthy.

Maybe that’s why all the kids are fat – don’t sell fizzy drinks.

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Written by AndyC555 on Mon Sep 04 15:52:10 BST 2006. 1 recommendations.

"The Government is BANNING certain foods, not educating people about them. That's interferring and if what we eat is not our personal life, what is??

Andrew Carter, London, United Kingdom

They're not BANNING any foods - you can still get them outside school (if you want them!)

Helen Jeffries"

*sigh* This HYS is about School dinners. The Government have banned certain foods from school dinners. Oh, and I mean the British Government, in case you think I mean the French or Somalian.

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Written by stellarich_b7 on Mon Sep 04 11:48:16 BST 2006. 0 recommendations.

My child started off just below average weight for his age when he first started senior school, now he is 5 stone overweight and I blame 100% the government for allowing so much fried food in schools, admittedly though he shouldn't have 4 portions of chips, 4 burger 2 whole pizzas with extra cheese when he gets home, but it is the mentality set into him by school dinners! And we also find the cokney moroon Jamie Oliver extremely annoying!! Down with the Blairs!!!

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Written by GypoDan on Mon Sep 04 13:33:01 BST 2006. 1 recommendations.

Shame on the government - yet again sleeping on duty.

Jonathan Christian, London, United Kingdom

i've barely seem them awake since they got in...

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Written by Webstu1234 on Mon Sep 04 15:47:49 BST 2006. 0 recommendations.

NO THE KIDS WHEN THEY COME OUT OF SCHOOL THEY WILL GO TO THE LOCAL (CHIPPIE) OR AT DINNER TIME GO OUT OF SCHOOL TO THE TAKE -A-WAY I LIVE NEAR A SCHOOL SO I KNOW WHAT I SEE NOT MANY STAY FOR A SCHOOL DINNER IN FACT THEY EVEN GO IN TO THE PUB WHICH ALL SO NEAR THE SCHOOL AN HAVE A QUICK ONE
SEEING IS BELIVEING
S.R CAMBS

SIDNEY REDMAN, PETERBOROUGH, United Kingdom

At least they will have healthy iron levels, beer is good for you.

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Written by starlinguk on Mon Sep 04 16:01:32 BST 2006. 0 recommendations.

" I shop at ASDA"

Me too!

But the fact remains that fish fingers, chips and baked beans are cheaper than a fresh bit of fish, boiled maris pipers and green beans ...

Not that I go for the cheap option, but it is hard to keep up with an income of 700 quid a month.

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Written by scotbot on Mon Sep 04 16:01:19 BST 2006. 0 recommendations.

"Once school governers and politicians are made to eat an exclusive diet of this vomit, things will change." ~ [konini]

When Jamie Oliver ran his TV series he invited then Education Secretary Charles Clarke on to taste his new proposed meals. First of all, he served up the usual muck, which CC ate, but you never got the feeling CC was taking it all in. He looked a tad distracted. Maybe a focus group have forced the Govt's hand and made them pro-active. It's good to see action being taken.

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Written by Oxfordnewshound on Mon Sep 04 15:56:25 BST 2006. 0 recommendations.

One would have thought it was common sense to impose some kind of decent standard here, given all the research that suggests we have a real problem with childhood obesity. However, I reckoned without all the usual nutters who want to define freedom as "I'll do what I want, and sod the consequences". Regulations imposed by the state exist (and rightly) in all walks of life. Without them none of us has any freedom. The only issue worth talking about here is the cost.

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Written by MarkMalikTeesside on Mon Sep 04 16:43:07 BST 2006. 0 recommendations.

What a load of parsimonious claptrap.
Eat what you want Kids.
Give them what you want Mums.
Tell the government, AND Jamie Oliver to
MIND THEIR OWN DAMN BUSINESS!
Ken Thompson, United Kingdom

Are you for real? Do you really believe in letting kids eat just what they want or are just tryng to provoke a reaction. Are you so ignorant of the health implications of what you are suggesting. And as for telling the Government to mind their own business, they are!this is their business!