Wednesday, 25 March 2009

Healthy school dinners

Healthy school dinners are in the news again and I think the government has to be very careful not to push children away from eating moderately healthy food by making the food too different to what they are used to eating. It took 20 years to get the great British public to reduce their smoking habits dramatically. Gently, gently is my philosophy for helping children to eat more healthily and I think we should increase the effort to encourage them to become much more active. It is kids’ inactivity that is the biggest cause of children’s obesity – not the food. We are working towards a programme for children which will be launched on 16th April. Watch this space!