Now, cheese is supposedly bad for kids...

junkfoodscience.blogspot.com     Jul 23, 2008            

It’s not only lunches from home banned from primary schools, now cheese has been banned from lunchrooms. As the UK Mirror reports: Schools in Plymouth banned from putting cheese on jacket potatoes Thousands of schoolchildren were yesterday stopped from eating cheese on jacket potatoes for lunch. Education chiefs ordered all 17 primary school canteens in Plymouth not to put the topping on baked spuds in a bid to improve pupil health. The city council claimed it had been forced into the ban in an bid to meet new Government nutrition standards. But the move was blasted by parents - with local mum-of-two Jenny Long, 28, saying: "It's ridiculous. If things are used in moderation you don't need to ban anything. "Cheese is a natural product and it's a bit odd of the council to dictate whether our kids can have it on a potato."...... [read full story]                    

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