<story><title>Dear American Consumers: Please don’t start eating healthfully</title><url>http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/05/19/dear-american-consumers-please-dont-start-eating-healthfully-sincerely-the-food-industry/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author></author><text></text></item><item><author>DanBC</author><text>&amp;#62; &lt;i&gt;For example, any food marketed to children must “contain at least 50% by weight one or more of the following: fruit; vegetable; whole grain; fat-free or low-fat milk or yogurt; fish; extra lean meat or poultry; eggs; nuts and seeds; or beans.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;UK advice is to give children full fat milk until they are 2, and not skimmed until they are 5, and only then if they have a good diet.  This is because of the fat soluble vitamins, and also because children need the energy.  As part of a sensible diet full fat milk is fine.&lt;p&gt;This advice is part of the healthy drinking stuff.  Children should have water or full fat milk.  If you give them fruit juice dilute it at least 10 parts water to 1 part juice.  Use a free-flow beaker, or a straw cup, or a regular cup, rather than a sippy cup.&lt;p&gt;All this advice from government sounds a bit preachy.  But tooth removal is a significant cause for hospitalisation for UK children under 5.&lt;p&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/apr/10/tooth-health-poverty-caries&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/apr/10/tooth-health-p...&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;p&gt;Tooth care (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/2366.aspx?CategoryID=62&amp;#38;SubCategoryID=63&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/2366.aspx?CategoryID=62&amp;#38;SubC...&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;p&gt;squash and fruit juice better than fizzy drinks? (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/are-squash-and-pure-fruit-juice-better-for-children-than-fizzy-drinks.aspx?CategoryID=62&amp;#38;SubCategoryID=63&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/are-squash-and-pure-fruit-juice-...&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;p&gt;Cups and beakers (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/pages/drinks-and-cups-children.aspx#close&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/pages/drinks...&lt;/a&gt;)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kibibu</author><text>Do you have any evidence of this?&lt;p&gt;I would be shocked if food labeling laws let this happen without explicitly calling it some variant of &quot;flavoured milk&quot;.</text></comment>
<story><title>Dear American Consumers: Please don’t start eating healthfully</title><url>http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/05/19/dear-american-consumers-please-dont-start-eating-healthfully-sincerely-the-food-industry/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author></author><text></text></item><item><author>DanBC</author><text>&amp;#62; &lt;i&gt;For example, any food marketed to children must “contain at least 50% by weight one or more of the following: fruit; vegetable; whole grain; fat-free or low-fat milk or yogurt; fish; extra lean meat or poultry; eggs; nuts and seeds; or beans.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;UK advice is to give children full fat milk until they are 2, and not skimmed until they are 5, and only then if they have a good diet.  This is because of the fat soluble vitamins, and also because children need the energy.  As part of a sensible diet full fat milk is fine.&lt;p&gt;This advice is part of the healthy drinking stuff.  Children should have water or full fat milk.  If you give them fruit juice dilute it at least 10 parts water to 1 part juice.  Use a free-flow beaker, or a straw cup, or a regular cup, rather than a sippy cup.&lt;p&gt;All this advice from government sounds a bit preachy.  But tooth removal is a significant cause for hospitalisation for UK children under 5.&lt;p&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/apr/10/tooth-health-poverty-caries&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/apr/10/tooth-health-p...&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;p&gt;Tooth care (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/2366.aspx?CategoryID=62&amp;#38;SubCategoryID=63&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/2366.aspx?CategoryID=62&amp;#38;SubC...&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;p&gt;squash and fruit juice better than fizzy drinks? (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/are-squash-and-pure-fruit-juice-better-for-children-than-fizzy-drinks.aspx?CategoryID=62&amp;#38;SubCategoryID=63&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/are-squash-and-pure-fruit-juice-...&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;p&gt;Cups and beakers (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/pages/drinks-and-cups-children.aspx#close&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/pages/drinks...&lt;/a&gt;)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hollerith</author><text>Huh?  Milk sold in the US does not contain added sugar.  It has a lot of sugar in it, but that comes from the cows.</text></comment>