Proper Eating at Holiday Time Children Need Healthy Food Outside of School Term, Too

The HeraldJuly 29, 2005

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THERE is sometimes an argument for spending money to save it, especially when children's health is at stake.

There is no need to rehearse a catalogue of grim statistics regarding the physical condition of Scottish schoolchildren. Suffice to say that one in seven 11-year-olds is classified as obese and there are areas of Glasgow where three out of four five-year-olds have holes in their teeth. If unchecked, the dietary habits that generate such figures will produce a bad health timebomb that will overwhelm public services and cause incalculable pain and misery in years to come.

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Proper Eating at Holiday Time Children Need Healthy Food Outside of School Term, Too

Glasgow City Council has shown the way in tackling this culture by adopting an incentive s...

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