News archive for the ‘Children’ Category
Pupils take MPs to school in parliamentary healthy living quiz
14 January 2016. MPs put their knowledge of healthy eating…
Parents urged to get free sugar app to check products
Public Health England is urging parents to sign up to…
Space hoppers invade Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
15th January The Copper Box Arena on the Queen Elizabeth…
Small steps to big results. The crackdown on childhood obesity.
By Annabel Karmel MBE, No.1 Children’s Cookery Author and leading…
MPs and schoolchildren face off over healthy eating and hydration
Members of Parliament and their teams of local schoolchildren have…
Clamp down on takeaways near schools to stem rise in obesity, says thinktank
A report published by the 2020health thinktank, titled Careless Eating…
National physical activity competition launches for children to win new outdoor school facilities
6 October 2014. Children and young people could win funding…
Free school meal scheme begins
The Government has launched its new free school meal scheme,…
Childhood obesity must be tackled by "emergency taskforce" to stop destroying kids' health
12 organisations including the Royal College of GPs have called…
Obese children six times more likely to have high blood pressure, study finds
A German study presented at the European Society of Cardiology…
The parents in denial over their kids' size: Number who can spot if a child is overweight declines over two decades as fat becomes 'normal'
New research by Georgia Southern University has warned that obesity…
Soaring childhood obesity sees school uniforms with 50 INCH waistlines and 54in blazers
The National Obesity Observatory has revealed that school uniforms with…
Schools raiding repairs cash to fund free meals: Councils forced to cut maintenance budgets to pay for Clegg's controversial plan
The Local Government Association (LGA) has warned that councils are…
Children bombarded with unhealthy eating messages on TV, experts warn
Researchers who analysed more than 82 hours of children’s television…
Labour will cap the amount of sugar in breakfast cereals under plans to tackle childhood obesity
Labour health spokesperson Andy Burnham has said Labour will pledge to…