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Diet - a social divide that starts aged two CHILDREN under the age of two are regularly eating sugary foods and drinks as an established part of their diet, a major study has warned. http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/-Diet--a-social.3790156.jp £40m for battle against obesity Efforts to tackle obesity in Scotland are to receive additional funding of £40m over the next three years but will not include an idea mooted at Westminster that cash incentives be offered to encourage people to lose weight. http://www.theherald.co.uk/display.var.1993122.0.0.php?utag=79564 7000 more kids going for free school meals THOUSANDS more Glasgow primary pupils are tucking into free school meals. http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/display.var.1982652.0.7000_more_kids_going_for_free_school_meals.php Food labels simplified in obesity fight A promise to introduce a single, simple food labelling scheme this year will form the centrepiece of the government's anti-obesity drive. http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/jan/23/health.children Plans for junk food ad ban dropped The government has abandoned plans to impose a pre-9pm ban on junk food TV advertising when it unveils its new anti-obesity strategy tomorrow, safeguarding more than £200m a year in TV advertising revenue. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jan/22/advertising.health Boost healthy eating with free school meals for all There is no question that more urgency is needed from schools, but also government, to ensure all our children are able to eat healthily at school (your report, 15 January). http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/opinion/Boost-healthy-eating-with-free.3681367.jp Plan to curb fast-food outlets near schools Ministers will move this week to curb the spread of fast-food outlets near schools when they unveil an action plan intended to halt Britain's spiralling levels of obesity. http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2243757,00.html Free school meals should be extended to all There is no question that more urgency is needed from schools, but also government, to ensure all our children are able to eat healthily at school (Schools told: do more to beat junk food crisis; Could lunch time lock-ins cut obesity?, The Herald, January 15). http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/letters/display.var.1968090.0.Free_school_meals_should_be_extended_to_all.php Campaigners respond to ‘Hungry for Success’ report with call to remove cost barriers to healthy food in schools. School meals campaigners responded to the publication today of an official report on Scotland’s school meals strategy by calling for removal of the cost barriers to healthy food in schools. Campaign Press Release Healthy eating for pupils Is the policy to encourage children and young people to eat healthily a recipe for success or is it destined to fail, like an experimental dish on the menu, shunned by each diner? http://www.theherald.co.uk/search/display.var.1965180.0.healthy_eating_for_pupils.php |