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Food & nutrition news

Family Suppers Still Popular
The demise of the family meal is a myth
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Cutlery Classes For Kids
Family meal demise leaves schools carrying the can
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Why Men Prefer Good Cooks
Culinary and debating skills make the best wife
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Nutella Withdraws TV Advert
Hazelnut spread not 'balanced breakfast'
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Seinfeld Storm Over Kids Cookbook
Comedian's wife accused of plagiarism
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Mums' Curry Hits Supermarket Shelves
School fair favourite makes mums thousands
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Hidden Salt Worry For Parents
Do you know what's in your children's food?
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Good Food Blamed For Rowdy Pupils
Downside to healthy school meals
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Cooking Classes For All
Baking, frying and stewing to be compulsory
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Three-year-old's Great Escape
Girl runs home from school to escape school dinners
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Disney Restaurant Bans Kids
Why the Florida resort 'is not amused'
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Teen's Decade Long Chip Diet
15-year-old eats nothing but fries
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McDonalds Still Big Cheese
Chain selling more burgers than ever
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Child Obesity To Be Tackled
Dept of Health considers new steps to fight the flab
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Locking Kids In At Lunch
Should school gates be closed at lunchtimes?
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One In Four Kids Obese
Ofsted looks at the decline of school meals take-up
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More Carrot And Less Stick
Ofsted looks at the decline of school meals take-up
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Good Riddance To Ready Meals
Why parents are back to cooking from scratch
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Sushi Sucks, But Curry's Favourite
Under 5s have an international taste in food
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Seal The School Gates!
Jamie Oliver wants lunchtime trips banned
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Are Additives Linked To Hyperactivity?
New research suggests possible link
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250,000 Children Drop School Dinners
Massive decline in take-up since healthy measures introduced more...

Kids Choose Lunchbox Contents
Parents adrift over what makes a healthy lunchbox
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Friday Is The New Sunday
How Friday night dinner overtook Sunday lunch
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Fat Is Fine
Kids need to eat fatty foods
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Asda Recall Toddler Bottles
115,000 drinking bottles may have unsafe caps
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Hollywood Stars Dine On Baby Food
Mad new craze has actresses mad for purees
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Teen Overdoses On Expressos
17-yr-old admitted to hospital after seven double coffees
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Why Kids Prefer McDonalds
Snacks wrapped in McDonald's packaging more tasty, say children more...

£119m Fruit Scheme In The Bin
You can lead a child to fruit, but you can't make him eat
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School Lunch, No Thanks!
Less pupils opting for school meals
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Ramsay: Fine Parents Of Obese Kids
Chef says shock tactics are required
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Eat More Chocolate Say Doctors
A good contender for the best headline this year!
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Teens Turn Away From Alcohol
Large rise in numbers who never drink at all
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Why Granny Knows Best
Kids should look to grandparents for good food role models
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Baby Purees Are Bad News
New woes for weaning parents
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The School Meals Revolution
Teens vote with their feet and shun Jamie's dinners
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£80 Fine Over Toddler's Quavers
Dropped crisps bring council crashing down on two-year-old more...

Ban Additives From Kids' Food
Scientist says additives can make kids aggressive
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No iPods At The Table
New table manners for today's kids
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Schoolgirls Humble Ribena
Science experiment brings Glaxo to court over vitamin C claims more...

Obese Or Merely Big Boned?
Government launches campaign to help parents see when kids are obese more...

Party Bag Inflation Hits £80
Parents spending more than ever on children's party bags
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How Icecream Can Boost Fertility
Clearly, there is a God!
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The 14 Minute Family Meal
Even at home we're a fast food nation
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Teen's Jamtastic Business
Teenager's preserves win him a £170,000 supermarket contract more...

Your Child Is Fat
MPs urge schools to be straight with parents of obese children more...

TV School Dinners
Politician says pupils should watch TV while eating
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Junk Food's Fertility Threat
How pie and chips can reduce your chances of having a baby more...

Core Blimey!
Pupil disciplined for eating apple
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Cheese Ban For Kids
New TV ad rules mean cheese off the menu for kids
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Family Restaurants Flunk Out
Chains don't offer healthy kids menus
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Doctors Miss Milk Allergy In Babies
80% feel colleagues misdiagnose cow's milk allergy
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Kids Say No To School Dinners
Survey shows nationwide decline – and Jamie's to blame!
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Snacks 'Saltier Than Seawater'
Children's food still isn't making the grade
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Chips With Everything
Healthy eating campaign backfires
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Feeding Kids Meat 'Is Child Abuse'
But PETA's campaign is 'sensationalist nonsense' says meat industry more...

Unhappy Meal
Pupils taken to McDonalds to learn about 'healthy' eating
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Jury's Out On Junk Food Ban
Debate over pre-watershed adverts hots up
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Use Food To Fight Fat
Exercise alone is not enough to prevent childhood obesity
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What's In Your School Dinner?
Government rapped over pesticide levels
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'Cocaine' Drink Gets Up Parents' Noses
California calls for fizzy drink boycott
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Fast Food Nation
60% of kids can't boil an egg
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Oliver! Oliver!
Never before has a TV chef got more (publicity)
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Junk Food Mums Stop Selling To Kids
Headmaster puts a stop to mums' school railing campaign
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Healthy School Dinners Launch
Nuggets in short supply for pupils
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Cereal More Fat Than Bacon Bap
Survey finds breakfast cereals high in sugar and fat
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Healthy Eaters Seeing Double
Good diet may be behind rise in multiple births
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Parents Protest Lunchbox Raid
Teachers confiscate junk food from children's lunchboxes
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Psst. Wanna Buy Some Crisps?
Black market for junk food in schools
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Eat What You're Given
One choice only for school lunches says chef
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A Sliced Folic, Please
Government to add folic acid to bread and flour
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Keen As Mustard
Jamie Oliver offers his services to the nation
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Cooking Lessons Suck
Inspector berates poor standard of food tech in schools
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The Pregnancy Diet
Women risk baby's health over their own appearance
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Snack Attack!
Food watchdog says 'ban junk food'
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Low Iron Risk?
Organic Baby Food worries
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Half-Baked Truths
Has cake baking fallen off the family agenda?
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Milk Subsidy Runs Dry
Government urged to end milk subsidy for primary schools more...

Eating Out Harms Kids’ Hearts
Home-cooked food best for children’s healthy hearts
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What Are Chips Made Of?
One in three kids don’t know that chips are made of potato more...

Family Meals Help Obesity Fight
Why sitting down to eat with your kids could help them stay fit and healthy more...

Parents’ Lunchboxes Policed
Government may offer advice on healthy lunchboxes
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Pupils Shoot Shock DVD
Film shows kids eating lunch in the school toilets
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School Fruits Pesticide Claim
Fruit and veg in schools meets only the lowest of standards more...

Why Eating Out’s A Mug’s Game
Children’s meals in restaurants fail basic standards
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Blair Should Take Arnie’s Lead
Schwarzenegger’s school junk food ban is the way forward
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Children Choose Curry
Toddlers pick curry over chips in new survey
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Lunchtime Revolt
Jamie Oliver persuades parents to ditch dinners
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Breakfast Bad Habits
Skipping breakfast sends wrong message to our children
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The Schools With No Kitchens
Fresh food plans stymied by new schools
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Palace Pulls Up Nursing Mother
Mum ‘moved on’ when she tried to breastfeed
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Obese Kids Can Be Given Drug
Anti-obesity prescription possible for children as young as 12
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Sweet Nothings
Dentists attack BBC kids website
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Junk Food Websites Target Kids
Companies exploit web freedom to market to children
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Poorest Township Serves Top School Meals
Jamie Oliver finds South Africa’s poorest pupils eating better than UK kids
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Pregnant Mums Warned Off Multi-Vits
Trading standards worried about supplement labelling
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Drop Cereal From Baby’s Meals
Gut problems linked to eating wheat before six months
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Bottle Mums Feel Guilty
Breastfeeding campaign makes bottle-feeders feel demoralised
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Lazy Parents Avoid Food Issues
Action rather than words is needed more...

More Light, Less Fat
Doctors say moving to European time could reduce obesity more...

Cooking Up A Treat
TV chef helps kids learn to cook more...

Junk The Junk!
Connecticut's new Anti-Obesity bill goes further more...

Raisins Not Bad For Teeth
The sweet sticky food that'll keep us smiling more...

Parents Monitor School Meals
Keeping an online check on what your children are eating more...

Lettuce Face The Music
iPods for healthy eats more...

Breastfeeding Lowers Blood Pressure
New study shows strong link between breastfeeding and low blood pressure more...

Jamie’s F***-Free DVD
Effing and blinding removed for sanitised version of TV series more...

ADHD Children Improve With Fish Oil
New study shows ‘significant’ improvements in the classroom more..
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Prince Charles Backs Jamie’s Campaign
Processed food the root of all evil, says the Prince more...

Government Names School Food Panel
…but there’s no place for Jamie! more...

Pregnant Women Should Take Supplements
40% should be taking vitamins whilst pregnant more..
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Breastfeeding Benefits From Day One
Low UK breastfeeding rates force NCT to launch new campaign more...

A Bowl Of Pea Ice Cream, Please Mum!
Organic company comes up with cunning plan to feed kids greens more...

Mum’s £1k Flight To Breastfeed Baby
Working mother makes emergency Atlantic crossing to nurse her baby more..
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The Appliance Of Science
Top chef aims to get kids excited by chemistry more...

Cherie Gives Packed Lunches Thumbs Up
PM’s wife says Leo will take lunch to school if food doesn’t improve more...

Sick Kids Fed Turkey Twizzlers
Hospitals admit they still have Jamie Oliver’s hated foodstuff on the menu more..
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Kellogg's Cuts Salt In Cornflakes
Cereal recipe will have salt cut by 25% more...

Back To The Table!
Families eating together is on the rise again in Britain more...

School Medical Reintroduced
Pupils go back on the scales in bid to reduce obesity more..
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Welcome Back!
Alphabetti Spaghetti is back on the shelves more...

Exercise Better Than Milk For Strong Bones
American report offers comfort to parents whose kids won't drink milk more...

If Music Be The Food Of Love?
Burger company aims for the charts more...

Jamie's £280m School Dinner Win
Chef's campaign persuades government to stump up 50p per child more...

11-year-olds Hospitalised By Alcohol
Thousands of children admitted last year through drinking more...

£77m School Fruit Push Disappoints
Kids give government 5-a-day scheme the thumbs down more..
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Children Programmed To Like Chips
Colour plays a larger role in babies' tastes than parents might think more..
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Government Backs Jamie's Dinners
Tony Blair pledges support and offers Jamie Oliver a job more...

Single Mums Have 30 Minutes To Eat Up
UK public house chain puts time limit on children's meals more...

Marmite Ads Scare Kids Silly
Advertising authority acts to withdraw yeast extract advertising more...

Teenage Girls Match Boys Drink For Drink
But drug taking is on the slide... more...

More fish, More Brains
Your mother was right, fish makes brains more...

Low Fact Labels
Food labelling 'wildly inaccurate' reports Which? more...

Chips With Everything
Fried food and sweets fail to feed kids' minds more...

Vegan Diet Harms Kids
Scientist says forcing children to follow strict vegan diets is unethical more...

Jamie's School Dinner Plea
Chef slams 37p budget for school meals more...

Ban The Burger?
Government gets tough on school dinners more...

Baby Weight Charts Are Wrong
WHO says current NHS charts may be adding to child obesity problem more...

Clearer Cereal Labels
Kelloggs shows salt and sugar content in new cereal packaging more...

Jamie's £280m School Dinner Win
Chef's campaign persuades government to stump up 50p per child more...

The Great Cake Escape
Five-year-old's solo trip to supermarket sparks an outcry more...

Morrisons Fails Checkout Test
The Food Commission names and shames supermarkets more...

Drinka Pinta Milk
Teen girls risk bone disease if their calcium levels are low more...


Sharon Osbourne: Mum In A Million?
Asda's new advertising 'face' announced to pioneer supermarket's family campaign more...






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