Trinity lecturer wants restrictions on cheese advertising for kids because of fat

Frogdog

I don't know if anyone heard the news on the radio today (Today FM 12:45-1pm)?

There was a report with a short interview from a Lecturer in Human Nutrition from Trinity (I didn't catch her name, I just know she was female and her title), whereby she wanted certain restrictions and quite possibly bans on advertising of cheese to children because of the high proportion of saturated fat in it. She mentioned that while kids need calcium, and cheese is a good source of calcium, that the benefits are outweighed by the negative effects of saturated fat (she mentioned it was high in calories, which in turn does not help overweight kids).

Now, granted, there are products out there that are cheese-like in appearance that have endless ingredients and are marketed towards children, but saturated fat is not one of the ingredients/nutrients that they should be targetting. How in the name of God in this day and age can a Lecturer in Human Nutrition in one of this country's most prestigous colleges be so out of touch with saturated fat and the myths that surround it?

Scanlas The 2nd

This is outrageous. Saturated fat does not make you fat, it is good for you.

reprazant

Cheese is good for you?

When did this happen?

Frogdog

reprazant wrote: »

Cheese is good for you?

When did this happen?

When was it bad for you?

Chuck Stone

No whey should she be allowed to do this.

totoal

Today FM don't seem to store the 12:45 news do they?
Here is a link to newspaper article - Irish Examiner

Alopex

Its not just trinity nutrition lecturers, same in the uk. The entire mainstream nutrition industry it seems still thinks saturated fat is the devil and wholegrains are great

Mack_1111

Frogdog wrote: »

How in the name of God in this day and age can a Lecturer in Human Nutrition in one of this country's most prestigous colleges be so out of touch with saturated fat and the myths that surround it?

My guess is that they can't? I think you countered your own argument there

totoal

Mack_1111 wrote: »

My guess is that they can't? I think you countered your own argument there

Come on now the are getting paid by food industry/government/charities (?) to push the food pyramid.

Mack_1111

totoal wrote: »

Come on now the are getting paid by food industry/government/charities (?) to push the food pyramid.

OK I'm not one for conspiracy theories but I'll run with this one:) The food industry is behind this move; I've just checked on the Bord Bia website and one of our biggest agri-food industries is dairy, export wise it's worth 2.9 billion per year :rolleyes: hmmmm

Thomas Magnum

Frogdog wrote: »

When was it bad for you?

When wasn't it?

doctor evil

Alopex wrote: »

Its not just trinity nutrition lecturers, same in the uk. The entire mainstream nutrition industry it seems still thinks saturated fat is the devil and wholegrains are great

I thought whole grains are good for you?

Bloody Nipples

Fat people wreck everything.

Triangla

How about advertising to tell parents of obese kids that they're crap parents?

g'em

Bloody Nipples wrote: »

Fat people wreck everything.

less of that.

feelgoodinc27

I'm not really up to date on nutrition except that there are alot of conflicting opinions on what is "good" nutrition, so out of interest what are the key differences in opinion on nutrition between people on this forum and the mainstream?

heate

Don't advertise cheese to children? Huh, anyone seen how not fat cheese eating euro kids are?
What bad advice, how distant from the real world is this lecturer? Kids today are obese because of all the crap the parents allow them to eat, by which I mean processes food and happy meals.

Red Cortina

feelgoodinc27 wrote: »

I'm not really up to date on nutrition except that there are alot of conflicting opinions on what is "good" nutrition, so out of interest what are the key differences in opinion on nutrition between people on this forum and the mainstream?

I dunno if I can speak for anyone else but it seems to me that one of the opinions would be that it is best to eat real food made in a traditional manner.


Also some good rules of thumb would be:

• Don't eat anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognise as food
• Don't eat anything incapable of rotting
• Avoid food products containing ingredients that are a) unfamiliar, b) unpronounceable c) more than 5 in number
• Shop the peripheries of the supermarket and even better, get out of the supermarket whenever possible

Those food rules are courtesy of Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food which I think is a great book:)

nice_guy80

I've cut way back on my dairy consumption

I've tried to stop eating cheese, but its just so damn good!!

this is ridiculous.
maybe the crappy cereals marketed at children should be banned - coco pops, frosties etc