It's hard to get away from the topic of children's terrible eating habits and increasing waistlines. Just before Christmas, for instance, Tony Blair announced a 519m programme to tackle obesity through investing in school sport.
Report after report over the past couple of years has highlighted the terrible quality of school dinners and children's lack of exercise. The reports have also charted the apparently inexorable trend towards childhood obesity and accompanying health problems in later life.
As a result, a succession of policy initiatives has come out in England over the past few months. The Healthy Living Blueprint for schools, published on 6 September, is intended as a practical resource for teachers across the curriculum (so that science teachers can explain a foodstuff's nutritional content, for example) as well as a guide to the kind of food that should and, probably more importantly, should not be on offer.
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