Really good news

Obviously a committee that does useful work! Did it meet in a pub? Heartfelt thanks anyway.

Galen
DD1 works with midwives, SRNs and Health Visitors. Did you know that cake eaten at work has no calories?

We were on a training day for PIP and were all lunching at the same table!

Now you tell us, Galen, and I have no chocolate in the house!

And as a bonus...butter is now good for us!

Phew, what a relief Galen. So a bar of white chocolate, one of dark chocolate, and and another of milk chocolate together with must be 4 of them!

Bitter has always been good for us in my house. Margarine does not cross the threshold and never has. Chocolate has always been counted as a fruit (grows on trees dunnit). Wine also.

You wait. It'll be lard and beef fat that are good for us next.

Butter!

And not Betty's bit 'o butter.

Cheese should be classed as a fruit as well...
(can't think why, but I like it! )

Bitter's good for you too, Bags.
Full of vitamin B, my mum used to say. She brewed her own

Don't forget, any cake or chocolate that is given to you has no calories. Foods of the same colour also have no calories ....... vanilla ice cream, whipped cream and white chocolate - zero calories! It must be true, my daughter told me and she's a scientist

Just wondering where I can get beef marrow from?
Can't beat it in a stew?

I prefer mild to bitter, but you can't get it down here. Seems to be midland drink

Mild!! Tastes like washing up water

Each to their own

Heston's mince has beef marrow so Waitrose must sell it.

Yes, they do, they've been advertising it last couple of weeks.

Only in combination with beef shin!. I just want marrow!

Great news Galen, what a relief after all the horror stories. I notice that a cardiologist yesterday also made positive comments about dairy products and meat - we just have to wait for shifts don't we. Remember when we could no longer go to work on an egg, for fear of instant death from salmonella>

Personally I always preferred the no 7 bus.

I just eat what I like but in small quantities and take a lot of exercise. My weight and cholesterol are in 'ideal' limits and I just ignore all the health/food scares from experts because I know that somewhere there is another expert about to prove them totally wrong.

The scares don't usually come from the professionals, Scarlet.
They come from journalists who misinterpret research findings to provide sensationalist copy, and from food manufacturers with vested interests.

It reminds me of the Royal Family, no not the Queen, the BBC T.V. Series.

Who remembers the next door neighbour, Cheryl, who was always eating
and had a bit of a weight problem. Denise said to her she should eat 5 fruits a day on her diet. Cheryl said "Oh I do Denise, a Terry's Chocolate Orange, 3 Cherry Bakewell's and a Strawberry Mivi Ice Cream". something like that.

I had an excellent message from my travelling daughter. She's met an American woman she finds inspirational and they're moving on to a new country together, along with other friends. Daughter's plan is for the next month to eat only things that grew in the ground. Not grubs, she means vegetables, fruit and pulses. Her diet today included popcorn ( a veg) and chocolate (comes from beans)