In the 1990s, there was the problem of the ‘muesli belt middle-class’ children, who were fed too few carbohydrates and calories and ended up poorly nourished and underweight. Today, we face another problem of poor nourishment: children being greeted from nursery with large bags of crisps and huge quantities of fizzy drinks – this time ending up overweight.
Childhood obesity is rarely out of the media, with statistics constantly telling us how grave the situation is going to be for the health of our future generations and the NHS. At the same time, nutritional guidance regularly dominates the press and popular culture: what is good and not good for us to eat, the value of super-foods, and the benefits of food combining and reducing portion sizes.
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